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for a critical reading of the manuscript of a booklet to be pub- 
lished on flowers and their use in connection with funerals. An- 
other firm asks for information as to the necessary procedure 
with the State Bureau of Plant Industry in connection with the 
importation of living plants from California to New York. The 
New York office of a concern in Liberia asks for information as 
to obtaining and growing Soya Beans and Kudzu Beans, and 
sugar cane in that country. A bond house in New York asks for 
the botanical name of a plant they wish to import, known to them 
only by a local English name. Inquiries are constantly received 
concerning such matters as the care of lawns and house plants, 
plant diseases, the naming of plants, and the names and addresses 
of nurserymen, seedsmen, and reliable companies to care for 
ornamental and shade trees. The list might be prolonged almost 
indefinitely. The inquiries come not only from New York City, 
but also from other cities and states, and from other countries. 
News Releases 
Over 500 clippings of newspaper notices concerning the Garden 
have been received during the year. As the curator of public 
instruction points out in his report, these notices appeared in the 
papers of twenty cities, distributed in eleven different states and 
Canada. While these notices imply a certain amount of publicity 
for the Garden, their chief value, perhaps, is in rendering our 
educational work more effective by making it available to a vastly 
greater number of people than can visit the Botanic Garden. 
Broadcasting 
“New York’s Biggest Flower Garden” was the subject of a 
talk broadcasted by the director on the evening of May 1, from 
the Municipal Station, WNYC. 
Public Exhibits 
The Botanic Garden does not maintain a museum, except its 
collections of living plants in the conservatories and plantations. 
The entire garden is, in reality, an out-of-doors museum of living 
specimens. From time to time, however, temporary exhibits are 
installed. 
