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to give horticultural information in answer to the questions which 
are continually being asked by the visiting public. The Garden 
needs at least six more trained gardeners to enable us to enrich 
the content of the special gardens, to maintain them (and the 
Conservatories) at higher standards of perfection, and to serve 
the public more effectively. 
Attendance 
General Attendance.—No special effort has ever been put forth 
for the express purpose of increasing the outdoor attendance, but 
as the Garden has become more beautiful and more educationally 
effective the attendance has tended to increase each year, with the 
fluctuations, of course, which all such institutions experience, ow- 
ing to the vagaries of the weather and other causes. In 1936 it 
reached the impressive total of 1,567,304 persons as indicated by 
the registering turnstiles at the gates. This is really not the full 
tota 
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, for many persons enter the Garden through the Laboratory 
3uilding or elsewhere, without being counted. [Especial attention 
is called to the week-end attendance of 34,019 on May 16-18, 
and of 37,871 on May 9-11. The appended report of the curator 
of public instruction gives further data on attendance. 
The Rose Arc 
Our Rose Garden was first opened to the public in 1928, as a 
gift from Mr. and Mrs. Walter V. Cranford. The passing of 
Mr. Cranford in December, 1935, was recorded in the 1935 report. 
In January, 1936, the director received a letter from Mrs. Cran- 
ford suggesting that she would like to do something further for 
the Botanic Garden as a memorial to Mr. Cranford. For some 
time it has been our hope that we could begin the horticultural 
development of the Esplanade. In the spring of 1936 we also 
received offers of gifts of roses in greater variety and quantity 
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than could be accommodated in the Rose Garden. Our landscape 
architect, Mr. Caparn, had prepared a sketch, in color, for the 
treatment of the semi-circular south end of the Esplanade sub- 
stantially as an extension of the Rose Garden. 
The design includes a semi-circular water basin 58 feet wide, 
including coping, with a fountain as a central motif, surrounded 
