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just one hundred years ago this year), and Parmentier, who intro- 
duced the potato into France, and succeeded in getting it generally 
accepted as a food-plant. His name is perpetuated in parmenticre, 
the synonym for pommie-de-terre. His modest monument in the 
Pere Lachaise cemetery bears the following inscriptions : 
On the north side: “ Wonument élevé a la mémoire d’ Antoine 
Augustin Parmentier par les pharmaciens civils et militaires de 
France, ses Eleves, ses Anis, ses Collegues.” 
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On the east side: Bas-relief of a grapevine (left), a still (cen- 
ter), and a basket of potatoes (right). On the day of our visit 
(or shortly before) some admirer had laid a large potato on this 
face of the tombstone. 
On the south side: “ Jer repose Antoine Augustin Parmentier— 
Pharmacien—Membre de UInstitut de France—du Conseil Gen- 
eral des Hospices Civils de Paris—L’un des Inspecteurs Generaur 
du Service de Sante des Arines—O fficier de la Legion d’Honneur 
—Neé a Montdidicr en 1737—Mort a Paris en 1813.” 
On the west side: In bas-relief a wheat plant (left), a plow with 
large wheels (center), a plant of Indian corn (right). At the top 
a bust of Parmentier in bas-relief. 
These emblems all signify the various ways in which Parmentier 
introduced improvements in agriculture and in the dietary of the 
French army and nation. There is in the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- 
den a bronze tablet in memory of another member of the Parmen- 
tier family, who established the second commercial nursery on 
Long Island and the first institution in Brooklyn to be called a 
botanic garden. 
Ninth International Horticultural Congress 
From August 7th to 15th I attended the Ninth Annual Inter- 
national Horticultural Congress in London, as delegate from the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the New York Horticultural Society, 
the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, and the 
National Institute of Social Sciences. There was a large and 
representative attendance, and the meetings were held in_ the 
Society’s own buildings, admirably adapted for such a purpose 
and also for public horticultural exhibits. One could not help 
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contrasting the flourishing condition of organized horticulture in 
