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New York Horticultural Society in connection with the Annual 
Flower Show and otherwise. 
School Garden Association of New York in distribution of seeds 
to children and publication of Tree Study Calendar. 
Girl Scouts in the installation of a garden booth at the Brooklyn 
Girl Scout Carnival and Demonstration, April 13 and 
14, at the 13th Regiment Armory; also in other ways. 
30y Scouts in the giving of an exhibition in the Laboratory 
Building at the Garden, attended by over 4,700. 
The list could be prolonged for several pages. The above cases 
were chosen to illustrate diversity and geographical range. 
What Price Smoke 
What Price Smoke is the title of Bulletin IJ], March 1928, 
published by the National Conference Board on Sanitation in co- 
operation with the Department of Health of New York City. 
The first page contains a statement from the Director of the 
3otanic Garden on the effect of smoke and fumes on the vegeta- 
tion in the Garden. 
I have mentioned the seriousness of this situation in previous 
reports to our Board of Trustees, and emphasized it in the Fif- 
teenth Annual Report of the Garden (for 1925). 
According to the Bulletin just cited, data have been assembled 
which, show that the excess of smoke and soot in the atmosphere 
of New York City costs the City, annually, $16 per capita, or a 
total of $96,000,000. 
It is largely because of soot and poisonous fumes in the at- 
mosphere that trees and shrubs in Central, Prospect, and other 
parks are in such distressing condition. In our judgment, it is 
this factor, more largely than any other, which made necessary 
the appropriation of $871,420, by the Board of Estimate on Janu- 
uary 26, 1928, for the rehabilitation of the City’s parks. 
The monetary loss to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on this 
account has been considerable, not to mention the great hindrance 
to the development of our plantations, and the fact that many 
kinds of evergreen trees and shrubs cannot be grown at all in 
the Botanic Garden. 
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