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Appreciation from “ Horticulture.’—“ Would that every city had 
an institution like the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This institution 
is of tremendous value to the horticultural industry, as it helps to 
create a wider appreciation of the flowers and a better knowledge 
of the way in which to handle them. It carries on classes through- 
out the year in which anybody with a common school education 
can obtain practical instructions on botany, propagation of plants, 
the handling of flowers in the greenhouse and outside, and the like. 
Trips are made to nurseries, private places, and other gardens once 
a month. Garden plans and floral decorations are studied at first 
hand. Lectures are given by well-known men in the horticultural 
world and an opportunity offered to get in touch with the leaders 
in the profession. In addition, the Garden cooperates with the 
local schools, members of its staff give lectures to the pupils, and 
open the greenhouses for classes from the schools. It sells many 
packets of seeds and supervises home gardens. It has a course of 
instruction in the making and management of children’s gardens 
and in nature study. Likewise it has courses for teachers, and 
altogether offers educational features seldom found in any insti- 
tution outside of a college.’—Horticulture 35: 245. May 25, 
1922. 
Among recent visitors to the Botanic Garden are the following: 
Dr. Morten P. Porsild, director of Den Danske Arktiske Station, 
Disko, Greenland (Feb. 23); Dr. Paul S. Galt, U. S. Bureau of 
Fisheries, Washington, D, C. (March 6); Prof. F. E. Melchers, 
Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas (March 22); Miss Julia 
Whiton, Rochester, N. Y., City Training School (March 29) ; 
Prof. J. P. Lotsy, Research Fellow, Dutch Academy of Sciences, 
Velp, Holland (April 13); Dean J. W. Toumey, Yale Forestry 
School, New Haven (April 13); Prof. Clifford C. Glover, College 
of Pharmacy, University of Michigan (April 15); Prof. Charles 
L. Bristol, New York University (April 27) ; Prof. D. H. Camp- 
bell, Stanford University (May 25); Miss Kahler, Denmark 
(June 1). | 
Boston Florist Cooperates in Wild Flower Preservation.— 
“Much interest has been created by the announcement that Car- 
bone, Inc., one of the biggest florist concerns in New England, has 
