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Garden has offered the services of the head gardener, Mr. Free, 
without charge, to inspect the soil on vacant lots and other tracts 
in Brooklyn, to report on soil treatment necessary, and to give 
advice on planting, cultivation, insect and fungus pests, and the 
harvesting and storing of crops. A contribution of private 
funds has made it possible to command the services of an auto- 
mobile, and Mr. Free secured a license enabling him to operate 
the car himself. | 
Cooperation with the Federal Government.—Dr. White, cura- 
tor of plant breeding, and Dr. Olive, who has charge of our plant 
disease work, have cooperated with the federal government in 
war-time activities, the former in castor bean investigation, and 
the latter in the plant disease survey. Fuller details will be 
found on pages 98, 119, and 121, and in the Borantc GARDEN 
Recorp for July and October, 1918. 



Fic. 2. Potato field, 1918. A war-time planting on the south addition. 
Five members of staff have also cooperated with the botanical 
section of the National Research Council in the collection of 
information concerning economic botany, and the commercial 
utilization of plants and plant products. 

