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These rocks were donated by Mr. Marcel Le Piniec of the Mayfair 
Nurseries. 
Ten concrete posts were made and set to support a barbed wire 
fence at the south end of the Children’s Garden. 
A “dug-out” toolhouse, 8’ * 7’ * 5’, was constructed of con- 
crete in the border mound near the Rose Garden. This is for the 
use of men working in the northern part of the grounds. 
A concrete ‘‘dug-out,”’ 4’ & 31%’ X 31%’, for gasoline storage, 
was constructed in the service yard. 
About 180 feet of concrete drain pipes were laid in the garden 
of the Conservatory Plaza. 
Broken flagstones, obtained from the Park Department, were 
used by lay 540 square feet of walk on Boulder Hill, and 480 
square feet of walk across the Koelreuteria Triangle. 
Northeast of the Japanese Garden an area of 6000 square feet 
of soil was graded and seeded to lawn, and an area of 4800 square 
feet was seeded in the vicinity of the Overlook. 
EXHIBITS 
— 
At the Twenty-first Annual International Flower Show, March 
19-24, the Botanic Garden’s Exhibit of Methods of Pruning, 
covering 800 square feet of space, was awarded a Gold Medal. 
In connection with this, exhibit, I prepared two Leaflets,* one 
describing the exhibit, and the other, a ‘double number,” dis- 
cussing pruning in general. 
At the same Flower Show, we put up a display of about forty 
Crocus species and varieties covering 72 square feet for which we 
received a Special Prize. 
A plant of Ceratozamia mexicana bearing a male cone was 
awarded a Botanical Certificate. 
At the Brooklyn Fall Flower Show, September 25-29, we in- 
stalled an exhibit of Xerophytic plants, covering a space 20’ & 20’, 
In this exhibit 9 plant families, 54 genera and 114 species were 
represented. Jor this exhibit, we were awarded a Special First 
* Brooklyn Botanié: Garden Leaflets. Ser. XXII, No. 3-4, Mar. 21. 
Pruning Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Ledflets. Ser. XXII, No. 5, Mar. 21. The 
Exhibits of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden at the Twenty-first International 
Flower Show, 
