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Parmentier Tablet 
An account of the unveiling of a bronze tablet in memory of 
André Parmentier will appear in the January (1926) issue of the 
Botanic Garden ReEcorD before this report is published. The 
tablet, which is mounted on a large glacial boulder near the 
Eastern Parkway entrance, was presented by the Parmentier- 
Bayer Centenary Commission was unveiled on October 17, 1925. 
Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne, Belgian Ambassador to 
the United States, was Honorary Chairman of the Commission, 
and Mr. Henry G. Bayer was Chairman of the Executive 
Committee. 
André Parmentier established the second nursery on Long 
Island, located on a tract of 25 acres in what was then the out- 
skirts of Brooklyn, at the juncture of the Jamaica and Flatbush 
Roads—an area now included, roughly, between Sixth and 
Carleton Avenues and Bergen Street and Atlantic Avenue, 
While this was a commercial institution it was an important 
factor in the early development of horticulture in America, 
and was the first institution in Brooklyn to be called a ‘‘ Botanic 
Garden.” 
Cooperation 
Board of Education.—In addition to our regular work with the 
public schools, our curator of elementary instruction, Miss Shaw, 
on March 10, gave one of the lectures in a series of three under 
the auspices of the Board of Education on the general subject of 
Garden Nature Study, her subject being ‘‘The Experimental 
School Garden.’ The audience was composed of about 500 
teachers. 
In May, Public School No. 24 was supplied with labels to 
mark the trees on the school grounds. 
Board of Health—On June 8 we supplied, on request, to the 
Board of aay, Borough of Manhattan, 25 copies of our 
Leaflet on ‘Poison Ivy.’’ Numerous copies have been supplied 
in former years. 
National Federation for Child Study.—On March 4 Miss Shaw 
gave an address on “Children’s Gardening and Nature Study” 
before the Federation. As a result the Garden, on request, 
offered a course of five lectures on that subject, primarily for 
the members of the Federation. 
