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handsome new furniture, presented by Mrs. James Id. Post, was 

 admired, as well as a beautiful picture, the s^ift of Mrs. Edward 

 C. Blum. The experimental L^arden aroused much interest. 

 North of the experimental garden, on the slope in front of the 

 conservatories, w'ere the tulips, naturalized in the lawn. Four 

 thousand of these were a i^ift from the nursery where the bulbs 

 were grown — the Seabrook Company's nursery, of wdiich Mr. 

 Alexander M. White, a member of the Botanic Ciarden (Govern- 

 ing- Committee, is president. 



Tea was served in the main rotunda of the Laboratory Build- 

 ing- by the Woman's Auxiliary of the Garden, ]\Irs. James 

 Mandly Hills beins; Chairman of the Entertainment Committee. 

 Mrs. Frank P,ailey, Mrs. Frank J. W. Diller, Mrs. Lewis W. 

 Francis, and Mrs. Walter Denny Sargent, and Miss Hilda Loines, 

 Chairman of the Auxiliary, were hostesses. The following- 

 poured: Mrs. Edward C. Plum, Mrs. Paul lionynge, Mrs. Walter 

 Shaw Brewster, Miss Alice F>rinsma(le, AFrs. George Stuart 

 Brown, Mrs. Glentworth Peeve Butler. Mrs. William Hamlin 

 Childs, Mrs. Ira 15. Downs, .Mrs. Theodore L. Frothingham. Airs. 

 William H. Good, Mrs. John Hills, Mrs. Charles D. Lay, Airs. 

 Frank C. B. Pag:e, Airs. W. Sterling Peters, Miss Jessie W. Post, 

 Airs, Eitg-ene Swan. Alembers of the Junior League and of the 

 Botanic (larden Organization assisted in serving. 



To accommodate the large number of guests (over 800 being 

 present), several rooms of the Laboratory I'uilding were thrown 

 open. In the Exhibit Room in the north corridor, a series of 

 excjuisite water colors of native wild flowers l)y Airs. C. D. W^al- 

 cott, of Washington, D. C, and speciuK^ns of their reproduction 

 by the four-color process, had been installed. ' 



TREE PLANTING BY GIRL SCOUTS 



On F^riday afternoon, A[)ril 24 — Arbor Da}' — the (url Scouts 

 of Flatbush presented to the Botanic (warden and ])lante(l an 

 American Elm. The tree was jilanted in the center of the grass 

 triangle just north of the lower l^datbush Aveinie gate, near Em- 

 l)ire Boulevard ; in planting, the silver trowel, employed at all 



