I |, r Botani Garden exhibit includ d a model of our Children's 

 Gardens, made to scale by Miss Kathi ai < larl in n tor \li < 

 Shaw gave an informal talk each day on Garden topics. 



Winter Bouquets.— Our third exhibit in the interest of con- 

 servation of native American plants, especially Mountain Laurel, 

 Holly, and Groimdpine, was held December 11-16 at the Labora- 

 tory Building, in charge of the Woman's Auxiliary. There were 

 daily exhibitions, by members of the Boys and Girls Club, of their 

 Christmas activities and work, including th< making A numerous 

 Christmas gifts out of plant materials, the raising of plants to 

 tAwer at Christinas time, and the making of Bayberry candles 

 from wax obtained from the Bayberry (Myrica cerifica). A 

 special Leaflet entitled, What Price Christmas Greens?, was pub- 

 lished and distributed in this connection and received widespread 

 newspaper notices. In this Leaflet, by the curator of public in- 

 struction, Dr. Graves, it was urged that the most satisfactory 

 solution of the problem of conservation of Laurel and Holly, will 

 be to grow and market them as crop plants. This solution, how- 

 ever, will not apply to Gronndpine (Lycoporfiiim), as it cannot, as 

 yet, be raised satisfactorily in large quantities by artificial culture, 

 and so far, for the present at least, its use for ropes and wreaths, 

 at Christmas time should be discouraged. 



Dr. George W. Brush 



Dr. George Washington Brush, a trustee of The Brooklyn 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences since February 191 1, died suddenly 

 on November 18, 1927, at the age of 85 years. As a physician 

 Dr. Brush was for a time a member of the Board of the Long 

 Island College Hospital and a consultant at the Bedford Hospital 

 and Dispensary. In 1861 he enlisted in the Forty-eighth New 

 York Volunteers and served throughout the entire Civil War, 

 being mustered out with the rank of Captain. In 1864, at the age 

 of 22, he aided in the rescue, under fire, of 400 soldiers on a troop- 

 ship stranded in the Ashepoo River, South Carolina, and for 

 conspicuous bravery in this connection he was, shortly after the 

 close of the war, awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 



It was Dr. Brush who, while State Senator (1 896-1899), in- 

 troduced in the Legislature of New York State, in 1897, a bill 



