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director of the Garden was made chairman of the committee, 
being later succeeded by Mrs. Harold I. Pratt. 
Conferences were held with Mr. W. Earle Andrews, General 
Manager of the Fair, with the ultimate result that plans were 
maturing toward the end of 1937 for the assignment of suitable 
acreage for a horticultural exhibit commensurate with the impor- 
tance of horticultural science and art in our daily lives. On July 
8 Mrs. Pratt attended, by invitation, a meeting of the Botanic 
Garden Governing Committee in Brooklyn, and presented the 
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importance of having horticulture suitably represented at the 
Fair, and outlined the tentative plans being developed, including 
the underwriting of guarantees for specified amounts on behalf of 
organizations and institutions that will cooperate by taking 
exhibition space. The Committee expressed itself as unant- 
mously in favor of participation by the Botanic Garden in ac- 
cordance with the tentative plan, and the matter of completing 
the underwriting for the Garden, and other related matters, were 
left with the acting chairman, Mr. Benson, with power. 
Miscellaneous Cooperation 
Lhe International Flower Show was held at the Grand Central 
Palace, Manhattan, March 15-20. Details of our exhibit are 
given in the appended report of the horticulturist, Mr. Free, who 
planned and installed it. More than 40 clippings of newspaper 
notices of the exhibit were received. On the evening of the first 
day of the Show, Lowell Thomas, radio speaker, devoted a part of 
his period to our exhibit. It was referred to in the papers as one 
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of the most educational exhibits in the Show. Both Mr. Free anc 
Dr. Gager served on the Committee of Judges. The latter com- 
pleted his sixth year asa member of the Flower Show Committee, 
and served for the third year as a member of the Committee of 
the Garden Club of America for the award of the Club’s gold 
medal for the outstanding exhibit of the Show. Mr. Hunter, of 
the Botanic Garden Governing Committee, loaned us the use of a 
truck and driver of his firm, A. Schrader’s Sons, Inc., to take the 
main exhibit over to the Grand Central Palace and bring it back 
after the Show. 
Merchants Association of New York.—The director of the 
Garden served for the 17th year as a member, and for the 6th year 
