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veritable waterfall of leaves. The total of one hundred and eight 

 different forms gave the Garden third place in the number of 

 kinds shown. Of this total fifty-eight were not shown by any 

 other exhibitor. 



With the plants there was exhibited a specially prepared chart, 

 five by seven feet, showing the genealogy of the American vari- 

 eties of the Boston fern. The plants occupied a section of wall 

 a little over fifty feet long, and were displayed in two arcs about 

 six feet in depth at the middle. "The management of the 

 Botanic Garden/' says the Florists Exchange- (Oct. r, 1921), 



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did some real service, to the commercial grower especially, in 

 placing before his eyes a collection of over sixty sports of Ne- 

 phrolepis cxaltata, all correctly labeled and giving, on a large 



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chart on the wall, a genealogy of the present-day forms of the 

 Boston fern." 



Dr, Benedict, who served as one of the judges of the com- 

 peting exhibits, gave a public lecture, before a large audience 

 in the lecture hall, on tropical ferns, illustrated by lantern slides 

 from the Botanic Garden files, showing single typical plants from 

 the Garden collection, and views m our conservatories. A pam- 

 phlet of eight pages entitled Tropical Ferns was also prepared 

 by Dr. Benedict and w^as specially printed by the Horticultural 

 Society for free distribution to its members and to visitors at the 



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exhibition. 



Sixty-five classes of ferns and other plants had to be con- 



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sidered by the judges. The authorities of the Society, of which 

 M^r. Albert C. Burrage is president, expressed their appreciation 

 of the broad-minded policy of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 



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sending a non-competing exhibit to another city and another 

 state, and awarded to the Garden a special gold medal. 



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Curator of Public Instruction.— Dv. Arthur H. Graves entered 

 upon his appointment as curator of public instruction on Septem- 

 ber I, 1921. Dr. Graves received the degree of doctor of philos- 



