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with the Extension Division of this Station, Mr. Free has given 
nine addresses before Garden Institutes in various counties in New 
Jersey, and nine Radio talks from station WOR for the Radio 
Garden Club of the New Jersey Agricultural Iexperiment Station. 
American Tris Society, in continuation of the Beardless [ris test 
garden and. studies. 
Horticultural Soctety of New York—In March we stocked the 
Wardian Case in the Society's library and maintained the plants 
during the spring. An “ Award of Merit” and a “ Cultural 
Certificate,” received from the society for exhibits at their monthly 
mectings, are recorded by the Horticulturist on page 106. 
<linerican Rose Society —Mr. Free broadcast on Mareh 15 over 
WJZ, in cooperation with this Society, on the subject, ‘ Pruning 
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Canal Zone Experiment Gardens (Panama).—In April we sup- 
plied to these Gardens tubers of our East Indian Lotus (Nelun- 
binm speciosum) for propagating. 
Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticultural Foundation, Swarthinore Col- 
lege —Farly in May we supplied to this Foundation, for its fr- 
borctum, plants of eight species for which they had made a request. 
Blythedale Home for Convale Crippled Children.—In re- 
sponse to an appeal from Mrs. M.S. Weil, White Plains, N. Y.. 
we sent about 200 packets of our pe Packet Seeds to this 
Home, at Valhalla, N.Y. 
Brooklyn State Die May 27 we supplied full informa- 
tion as to the method of treatment of swampy areas in order t 
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chiminate mosquitoes, to Dr. George W. Mills, superintendent of 
the Brooklyn State Hospital, Creedmore Division, Creedmore, 
Long Island. 
Brooklyn Home for Consumptives—Vhis year, as previously, 
the Garden, through the department of elementary instruction, is 
supervising the children’s gardens of this institution. 
National Educational Association —An exhibit illustr; ating our 
educational work with children was installed at the N. E. A. an- 
nual convention at Atlantic C ity, June 25-30. Miss Shaw, curator 
of elementary instruction, appeared twice on the program, and 
was elected President of the Department of Science Instruction. 
