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with commonly in Greater New York and vicinity, including seed 
plants (trees, shrubs, and herbs), ferns, mosses, and hepatics, 
algae, and fungi. Fee, $5. Thursdays, 4 p.m., beginning Sep- 
tember 20. Dr. Graves and Miss Rusk. 
B7. Greenhouse Work. Thirty lessons. A course for those 
interested in the propagation and care of house plants. Lessons 
in repotting ferns; forcing blooming plants; shaping plants; plant 
insects and diseases; making window boxes, Wardian cases, and 
desert gardens, will be carried on in the greenhouses. Emphasis 
will be laid on problems of a practical nature. Limited to those 
who have taken B3. Fee, $10. Thursdays, 4 p.m., beginning 
October 3. Miss Shaw and Mr. Free. 
C. Courses for the General Public 
The following courses are open to any one who has a general 
interest in plants. Teachers are welcome. They are free to mem- 
bers of the Botanic Garden;* for others a small fee is required, 
as specified. Registration should be made with the instructor in 
person or by mail at least one week before the course opens, in 
order that adequate material, etc., may be provided. No course 
will be given when less than six Naty 
1. Full Year Course 
C15. Field Botany.—Thirty sessions. This is mainly an 
outdoor course, given in the Botanic Garden and Prospect Park, 
having for its chief object an acquaintance with the plants one 
meets with commonly in Greater New York and vicinity, including 
seed plants (trees, shrubs, and herbs), ferns, mosses and hepatics, 
algae, and fungi. Fee, $5. Thursdays, 4 p.m., beginning Sep- 
tember 26. (This course is identical with B6, p. 273. 
r. Graves and Miss Rusk. 
2. Fall Courses 
C4, Gardening in the Fall.—Six lessons, with practical work 
in the greenhouse, on the methods of making cuttings, the various 
kinds of bulbs for fall planting, their treatment and care, the 
* For information concerning membership in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
consult the third page of the cover of this Prospectus. 
