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elementary' instruction, and brief remarks were made by two of 

 the three members of the club who have received the award in 

 previous years — Mr. Harold Uhrbrock. Cornell 1924, and Mr. 

 John Wille, Cornell 1926. Miss Lillian Baker, who received the 

 award in 1921 and who is now studying at New Rochelle College 

 in preparation for teaching botany, was unable to be present. The 

 presentation was made by Dr. Gager. Mr. Utter has entered 

 Alfred University, Alfred, N. Y. As previously noted in the 

 Record, this scholarship is awarded annually to the boy or girl 

 who has done work of superior merit for at least three years in 

 our juvenile courses, and who is about to continue some line of 

 botanical or closely related work in a college or university. 



Gift of C annas. — On June 13 the Garden received from the 

 Conard & Jones Company, West Grove, Penna., a gift of 480 

 cannas, representing 32 varieties. They were planted out the fol- 

 lowing day in the four beds surrounding the two beds of bananas, 

 the six beds comprising the representation of the order Scita- 

 minales, located on the east side of the brook, between the lily 

 order and the grasses. During August, September, and well into 

 October the beautiful display of canna blooms excited a great deal 

 of popular interest. 



Miss Charlotte S. Young, for a number of years a member of 

 the teaching staff of the Department of Biology of Erasmus Hall 

 High School, has been appointed curatorial assistant at the Brook- 

 lyn Botanic Garden beginning as of September 1, 1923. 



A series of plant stories for children, by Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, 

 curator of elementary instruction, is appearing in the Junior Home 

 Magazine, a new periodical for children. The first story, illus- 

 trated by reproductions of photographs taken by Mr. Buhle in our 

 conservatories, appeared in the July, 1923, number and was en- 

 titled " Peter and the garden zoo," dealing with tiger lilies, snap- 

 dragons, foxgloves, and elephant's ears (Colocasia). The remain- 

 ing articles have the following titles : Silk making from green 

 leaves (August) ; Peter takes an aeroplane trip in the fields (Sep- 

 tember) ; How Peter was shot in the woods — witch hazel (Octo- 



