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will render it not advisable to make this appointment before the 
fall of 1912. 
Propagating House. It is already clearly evident that, within 
a very short time after the completion of our plant houses, their 
entire space will be needed for our exhibition collections, and 
the work of instruction and investigation to which two of the 
houses are now assigned. ‘This will necessitate the erection of a 
propagating house where the collections may be suitably pre- 
pared and cared for, and it will also become increasingly urgent 
that we have a garden area adjacent to the propagating house 
for nursery and experimental purposes. ‘The location of the 
Garden with relation to Prospect Park, the Central Museum, 
and public thoroughfares, leaves no appropriate place within the 
present grounds for such a house and garden, and I wish to urge 
upon the Committee the desirability of giving early con- 
sideration to this need, with a view, if possible, to acquiring 
forthwith, and as near to the present Garden lands as may be, 
a suitable area for the purposes above named. 
Acknowledgments 
The thanks of the Garden are due to Mr. John McCallum, 
Mrs. Clayton A. Peters, and other members of the Department 
of Botany of the Brooklyn Institute, for gifts of living plants 
for the native wild flower garden. 
Mention has already been made of the hearty co-operation 
of the New York Botanical Garden, through its Director-in- 
Chief, Dr. N. L. Britton; of the many courtesies extended by 
Dr. Frederick A. Lucas, former Curator-in-Chief, and Mr. E. L. 
Morris, Acting Curator-in-Chief, of the Brooklyn Institute Mu- 
seums, and by the Hon. Michael J. Kennedy, Commissioner of - 
Parks, Borough of Brooklyn. For valued services rendered, the 
Garden is also indebted to Mr. A. Augustus Healy, President, 
and other members of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn 
Institute, to Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, Director of the Institute, 
to the members of the Committee on Botanic Garden, and es- 
pecially to the Chairman of this Committee, Mr. Alfred ‘T. 
White, without whose substantial support and counsel the year’s 
progress would not have been possible. 
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