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previous tree plantings at the Garden, was used. The weather 

 was favorable and about loo scouts and friends were present. 

 The following was the 



Program 



r. Band Selection. Field Music of Girl Scout Troop 55. Con- 

 ductor Capt. Josephine Mulholland. 



2. Community Singing. Programs supplied through the cour- 



tesy of The American Tree Association. 



3. Recitation of 14 Couplets by 14 Girl Scouts. 



4. Address of Presentation. Mrs. Evelyx Wight Allan, Com- 



missioner of Girl Scouts in Brooklyn. 



5. Address of Acceptance. Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Director of 



Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



6. Ceremony of Planting, by a Golden Eaglet, Scout Helen 



Bagenstose. 



7. Address of Dedication. Rev. J. Frederic Berg, Pastor of 



Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush. 



8. Community Singing. 



9. Band Selections. Trumpeters Eieutenants Dorothy Wilson, 



Dorothy Parr, Catherine Callan. 



NOTES 



Botanic Garden Fence. — For some six or eight years there has 

 been need of a new wrought iron fence to surround the Botanic 

 Garden property, and numerous requests have been made from 

 time to time for an appropriation for this purpose. The last re- 

 cjuest, transmitted through the office of the Park Commissioner, 

 Borough of Brooklyn, was under date of June 18, 1924, for 

 $40,000 of corporate stock, serial bonds, or other funds. Final 

 consideration of the matter was on March 20, 1925, when the 

 Board of Estimate and Apportionment passed a resolution ap- 

 propriating $40,000 of corporate stock of the City of New York 

 for furnishing and erecting the fence. 



Increase in Attendance. — The attendance at the Garden has in- 

 creased greatly over a year ago. The total monthly attendance 



