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It seems reasonable to assume that the answers of the 80 reg- 
istrants who failed to reply to the questionnaire would have been 
distributed more or less in the same proportion among the dif- 
ferent sources. It is indeed gratifying to note that the most pro- 
ductive advertising we have is through the recommendation of 
people who have already taken our courses. It is also of interest 
that as many as nine metropolitan newspapers were named as 
sources of information. 
Among our courses, the following were new developments in 
1926. Dr. Gundersen gave an outdoor course on the spring flow- 
ers and ferns of the New York region, in which the parks and 
woodlands of Greater New York were visited by the class in much 
the same way as in my own classes on the woody plants. Dr. 
Gundersen’s course was given on Saturday afternoons and proved 
popular. | 
Miss Shaw formed another division of her class in Greenhouse 
Work, which is really an advanced course for those who have 
already taken her Principles of Agriculture and Horticulture 
On account of the building of the new iron fence around the 
Garden and the replacement of the old turnstiles with new ones, 
definite figures of registration of visitors could not be obtained 
for the entire year. It was felt, however, that an arbitrary in- 
crease of 2 per cent.* over last year’s figures would be a reasonably 
modest addition, in view of various indications that considerably 
larger numbers were visiting the Garden than in 1925. One of 
the indications was the increased attendance at the Conservatories 
—nearly 3,000 greater than last year, and larger than in any pre- 
vious year. Now that the registering turnstiles are again in 
the figures of the first months of 1927 amply 
justify this increase. In January, 1927, for example, the regis- 
—_— 
working order, 
tration was 28,212—more than twice that of 1925, and larger than 
in any previous January in the history of the Garden. The fol- 
lowing table gives the attendance at classes, lectures and conserva- 
tories, as well as registration at the entrance gates, by months, 
in 1920. . 
* This 2 per cent. increase was added beginning with May. The pre- 
vious months have the 1925 figures 
