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rendering a valuable public service and wish to have a part in it, 
and to encourage and support it. 
III. SERvicE To THE GENERAL Pustic 
The service which the Brooklyn Botanic Botanic Garden renders 
to the general public within the City is extensive and varied. This 
Fig. 19. Class from Public School 41 taking their share of the 25,000 
Aer plants placed in the classrooms of Brooklyn Schools by the Botanic 
(6197. ) 
Garden during 1927. 
should be so, for though the annual appropriation which the City 
makes in its Tax Budget for the support of the Garden is not 
burdensome to the tax payer (amounting to only a fraction of one 
cent per inhabitant, and at present amounting, in the total, to less 
than one half the annual cost of maintenance), still the public is 
entitled to full and generous returns on its investment in the 
Botanic Garden. 
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