Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 



VOL. XIV APRIL, 1925 NO. 2 



FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BROOKLYN 

 BOTANIC GARDEN, 1924 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



To THE Governing Committee of the Botanic Garden: 



I have the honor to present herewith the fourteenth annual 

 report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, for the year 1924. 



Steady Growth 



The history of the year just ended discloses, as it should, an 

 institution still in the vigor of youth. In fact, the Garden has 

 violated the principles of physiology and has continued to grow 

 and expand in spite of being under-nourished. This has been 

 made possible by the stimulus of a favoring environment and 

 by the devotion of every member of our organization to the 

 purposes and ideals of the Garden. 



Opportunity and Ideals 



By the environment we mean the inspiration of opportunity. 

 Almost any institution that ministers to the intellectual and 

 social needs of a community will find abundant opportunity in 

 a city of several million inhabitants. And the appeal of a 

 botanic garden is many sided — recreational, aesthetic, scientific, 

 educational. It serves not only the local community but also 

 the wider world of science and education. To be parochial 

 would diminish greatly its usefulness to the city. Municipal 

 institutions are debtors to all state, federal, and foreign agencies 

 for the promotion of science and education, and should endeavor, 

 in some measure at least, to repay in kind. Are our collections 

 enriched by seeds and plants from other institutions? Then 

 we should also offer material ' in exchange. Do we find the 



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