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Alfred T. White Scholarship, presented two books on horticulture 
for the library in the club room of the Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Mr. 
Wille has entered the class of 1926 at Cornell University. 
Big Tree Contest—Last spring the Botanic Garden offered 
three cash prizes for records of the largest trees now growing on 
Long Island. Over 300 records, some of which are duplicates, 
were submitted by about 200 contestants. Full details of the con- 
test, which closed on August 31, 1922, have been published in 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Leaflets for October 4, 1922. The 
records are serving as the basis of a study to ascertain the condi- 
tions which have combined to produce these big trees, and the 
result of the study will be embodied in a forthcoming Memoir by 
Mr. Norman Taylor, curator of plants, on “The Vegetation of 
Long Island.” There was a double tie for second prize. The 
awards were as follows: 
First prize for a Sycamore tree (24 feet in circumference) on 
the property of James N. Hill, Wheatley Hills, awarded to Her- 
bert Simonson, of Glen Head. 
Second prize for a White Oak (19 feet 7 inches in circumfer- 
ence) on the farm of Paul Costermale, Stony Brook, divided 
among C. P. Miller, of Stony Brook; C. C. Gregson, of Setauket, 
and Harold Smith, of Setauket, all of whom measured the same 
tree on March 11. 
Third prize for a Sycamore tree (18 feet 4 inches) on the E. J. 
Brennan place, St. James, awarded to Miss Julia Woodhull Otto, 
of Sayville. 
Visit of Japanese Sailors—On the afternoons of September 27 
and 28 about 350 Japanese officers and men visited the Japanese 
Garden and other parts of the Botanic Garden. These officers 
and men are to form the first crew of the new oil tanker “ Kamos” 
built for the Japanese Navy at Camden, N. J. The “Kamoi” 
was launched the latter part of July, 1922, and finished about 
September 1. She will sail for Japan on her maiden voyage under 
command of Captain T. Murase. 
The first fall meeting of the City Gardens Club, Miss Frances 
Peters, President, was held at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on 
