BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXII JULY, 1933 NO. 3 
EXHIBITION OF PLANT FORMS IN ORNAMENT 
An exhibition illustrating the use of plant forms in ornament 
was opened on May 8, 1933, at the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, the New York Botanical Garden, the New York Public Li- 
brary, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden cooperating. The exhibi- 
tion will be open until September 10. 
The objects of art are from the collections of the Metropolitan 
Museum, and living plants of the kind from which the designs 
were derived are placed near the corresponding objects. The 
plants are supplied by the New York Botanical Garden and the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
The New York Public Library has compiled a list of books of 
related interest to be found in the various libraries of New York 
City. The list is published in the Bulletin’ of The New York 
Public Library, beginning in June, classified so as to provide a 
background for the museum display and also a practical working 
list for students of ornament. ‘The list is classified under six main 
headings: plant forms as motives and patterns; plant forms in 
the applied arts; plant forms in the fine arts; plant forms in sym- 
bolism; plant forms as source material. 
During June, there was held in the American Museum of Nat- 
ural History an exhibit of patterns and motives of ornament de- 
rived from plants by students of three New York City High 
Schools—Girls Commercial High School, Brooklyn, and Textile 
High School and Washington Irving High School, Manhattan— 
and seven schools of design—Cooper Union Woman’s Art School, 
Grand Central School of Art, New York School of Applied De- 
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