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more beds to cultivate, and more trees and shrubs to care for, 
while at the same time, the trees and shrubs planted in the earlier 
years have come to pruning, spraying, and other care. n 
yet we have had no additional gardeners and only incidental and 
irregular additional unskilled labor for a number of years. Of 
course the proper standard of maintenance cannot be realized 
under such a serious handicap. 
ONES TORK JARTART- 1888 
AND peek’ ats 
Fic. 8. Bronze tablet giving data with reference to the ‘‘ Patent Line” 
between Brooklyn and Flatbush. (8647) 
THE WoMAN’s AUXILIARY 
Members of the Auniliary were of great assistance at the 
Botanic Garden exhibit throughout the week of the International 
Flower Show in March, and the Auxiliary, under the continued 
presidency of Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, had charge as usual of the 
social part of the annual Spring Inspection in May. The teas at 
the six Flower Days and at meetings of numerous clubs were also 
in charge of the Auxiliary. At the annual luncheon of the Aux- 
iliary on February 7, 140 were present, and Dr. George M. Reed 
gave a non-technical account of his investigations with Iris and in 
plant pathology. 
The membership work, in charge of Mrs. Whitney Merrill, has 
yielded very satisfactory results for these difficult times. One 
