64 
with the New England Plant Pathologists in Connecticut, August 
18-22. I again employed my summer vacation, in September, in 
work for the Plant Disease Survey office of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, in survey and educational work in 
Connecticut in connection with the recently introduced, serious 
disease of potatoes known as “potato wart.” 
In the seven years of my incumbency at the Garden, I have had 
a dual charge: general direction of a certain portion of the 
educational work, and also work in connection with the plant 
diseases of the Garden and with the fungus herbarium. It is of 
course beyond the powers of any one person to do these two 
lines of work as they should be done, particularly in view of their 
rapid growth since the Garden was established. I would, there- 
fore, suggest the creation of a new position, with a Curator of 
Plant Diseases to have charge of the plant disease work of the 
Garden, as well as the fungus herbarium, which has now grown 
to include some 50,000 specimens or more, and is constantly 
increasing. Respectfully submitted 
DGAR W. OLIVE, 
Curator of Public Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF EFLEMENTARY 
INSTRUCTION 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Records of this past year have 
contained reports of special happenings in the department of 
elementary instruction. Such special occasions as the graduate 
party, the children’s annual fall meeting, and the boys’ and girls’ 
garden exhibit were covered then in reports and need no second 
rehearsal. So I would submit this year my annual report largely 
in figures. 
In the fall of 1913, the first year this department was organ- 
ized, three elementary schools, less than one percent of all 
Brooklyn’s elementary schools, manifested an interest in their 
new Botanic Garden. This past year more than 62 per cent. of 
the elementary schools have availed themselves of the privileges 
offered here. 
