THE BOTANIC GARDEN AND THE CITY 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, established in 1910, is a De- 

 partment of the Brookh'ii Institute of Arts and Sciences. It is 

 supported in part by municipal appropriations, and in part by 

 private funds, including income from endowment, membership 

 dues, and special contributions. Its articulation with the City is 

 through the Department of Parks. 



The City owns the land devoted to Garden purposes, builds, 

 lights, and heats the buildings, and keeps them in repair, and in- 

 cludes in its annual tax budget an appropriation for other items of 

 maintenance. One third of the cost of the present buildings 

 (about $300,000) was met from pri\ate funds. 



Appointments to all positions are made by the director of the 

 Garden, with the approval of the Botanic Garden Governing Com- 

 mittee, and all authorized expenditures for maintenance are made 

 in the name of the private organization, from funds advanced by 

 the Institute, which, in turn, is reimbursed from time to time by 

 the City, within the limits, and according to the terms, of the an- 

 nual appropriation. 



All plants have been purchased with private funds since the 

 Garden was established. In addition to this, it has been the prac- 

 tice of the Garden to purchase all books for the library, all speci- 

 mens for the herbarium, all lantern slides, and numerous other 

 items, and to pay certain salaries, with pri^'ate funds. 



The urgent needs of tJie Garden for private funds for all pur- 

 poses are more than twice as great as the present mcome from en- 

 doicment, membership dues, and special contributions . The direc- 

 tor of the Garden will be glad to give full information as to pos- 

 sible uses of such funds to any who may be interested.* 



*A written Agreement, dated August 17, 1914, between the City of Xew 

 York and the Institute, touciiing the Botanic Garden, pubHshed in full in 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record, for April, 1915, amends the agree- 

 ment of September 9, 1912, which amends the original agreement of Septem- 

 ber 28, 1909, published in the Record for January, 1912. 



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