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Botanic Garden grounds in 1g12, but funds have not hitherto been 
available to develop the tract and make it an integral part of the 
Garden, beyond serving as an avenue of approach to the planted 
area. At the north end of the tract is the Eastern Parkway en- 
trance, only about 50 feet from the southeast exit of the new 
“Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum” station of the Interbor- 
ough Subway. At this gate is registered the second largest num- 
ber of visitors of the five Garden entrances. With the restoration 
of Eastern Parkway (which was badly torn up during subway 
construction) this entrance will become increasingly important ; the 
area will be seen by the increasing number of passers-by on the 
Parkway, and it is now highly important to develop it and to make 
it one of the most beautiful parts of the Garden. In order to 
provide the most effective setting for the large museum building 
to the east, the planting will be confined to trees and shrubs. In 
connection with grading the reservoir embankment, about 400 holes 
were dug and filled with top soil. The work was brought to a 
close by the first snowfall of the season on Saturday, December 3, 
one month later than the close of outdoor work in 1920. 
Early Spring.—Vegetation began its spring awakening unusually 
early. Before March to buds of peony, magnolia, cherry, rose, 
lilac, and numerous other forms were bursting, and many herba- 
ceous perennials had appeared above the ground. Crocus (always 
early) was in blossom, and a shrub of the Chinese witch-hazel 
(Hamamelis mollis) was a beautiful object in full bloom during 
the week of March 7. Out-of-doors work began on March 21, 
and the regular mowing of the lawns began on the unusually early 
. date of April r. 
A New Garden Publication 
Under date of December 31 an agreement was entered into with 
the editorial board of the bi-monthly journal Genetics by which 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden becomes the publisher of that jour- 
nal, beginning with the issue for January, 1922. This journal is 
a periodical record of investigations bearing on heredity and vari- 
ation, and its publication by the Garden is a very logical step, since 
the greater part of the research work now in progress at the Gar- 
den is in genetics, or closely related subjects. The present edi- 
