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“ Botany in your Garden” is the title of a new course conducted 
by Dr. Svenson in the fall. This course, designed to assist the 
amateur gardener, dealt with the more important fundamental 
processes which have a role in the life and growth of plants. 
Other Courses.—For the eleventh consecutive year I conducted 
a course for nurses-in-training. The registration was the largest 
on record. Fifty-one young women registered in the spring from 
Kings County Hospital and 130 in the fall from Kings County, 
Prospect Heights, St. John’s, and St. Mary’s Hospitals. This 
was the first year that the last named institution has sent students 
to us. The total registration of nurse students—181—shows a 
great increase over the number in 1936—118. Beginning in 
1927, when we had less than a dozen students, these hospitals, 
at their own request, have sent students to us and have come to 
regard the course, which deals especially with medicinal plants 
and botany in relation to materia medica, as a regular feature of 
their curriculum. 
As usual, Miss Vilkomerson and I gave the outdoor course in 
trees and shrubs of Greater New York in the spring and fall, with 
registrations of 55 and 17 people, respectively. 
During the first half of the year Miss Rusk continued to have 
charge of the classes begun the previous fall: general botany, 
flowering plants, and genetics. For six weeks, both in the spring 
and in the fall, she conducted a field course on the wild flowers 
of the New York region. During the fall she gave also a labora- 
tory course in flowering plants. 
In all, 802 were enrolled in Botanic Garden courses for adults 
during the year. This is a marked decrease from the registration 
of the year before—973—and, were it not for our large registra- 
tion of nurse students—181—there would have been a much more 
spectacular drop. This may be explained in part by changes, of 
experimental nature, in our method of circularization of the 
courses. It seems clear from the results obtained that drastic 
economy in circularization (which was one of the changes) is nota 
good policy—not really an economy. A return to our former 
system, which had been built up carefully through the years, 
is recommended. 
