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In connection with the statement on pages 91-94 of the 
present number of the Recorp, setting forth certain needs of the 
library, it is a pleasure to acknowledge here a gift from Mr. 
Alfred T. White of one thousand dollars for library purposes. 
On Aug. 17 a class of boys with their teacher from the 
Chelsea Park School-Garden, 9th Ave. and 27th St., Manhattan, 
visited the Garden primarily for the purpose of seeing the 
Economic Section. The appropriateness of an exhibit of com- 
mon garden vegetables in a city of the size of New York was 
well illustrated by a remark of one of these boys, who, seeing 
the rather small, yellow pumpkins on the vines, exclaimed, “O, see 
the oranges!” It is difficult for one who has ever lived in a 
small city or village to realize that thousands of children in New 
York City have never seen the common garden vegetables and 
forage plants growing. The boys were also much interested 
in the piles of compost and leaf mould in the service yard, as 
all the weeds pulled from their own school garden are preserved 
in a pile to make compost. 
The first number of the projected series of GurpEs, en- 
titled, “The Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” was issued last June, 
as a reprint from the Popular Science Monthly for April, 1912. 
This number is intended to serve as introductory to the series, 
and as a guide to the general plan of the grounds as laid out by 
the landscape architects, to the plans of the buildings, and briefly 
to the aims and purposes of the institution. The price of this 
number is five cents. The front page of the cover was designed 
by Mr. Frederick W. Goudy, of New York City. 
Mr. Cullen Adlerblum, a graduate of the College of the 
City of New York, class of June, 1912, has been acting as 
Student Assistant in the Garden during the past summer, making 
a study of the local flora, and preparing specimens for the 
herbarium of plants cultivated in the Garden. 
On July 8-13 the Director of the Garden and the Curator 
of Plants made a trip to Ottawa and Montreal, Canada, to visit 
the botanic garden at the Central Experimental Farm of the 
Dominion Government, in Ottawa, and the biological labora- 
