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Horticulturist in Charge, Division for Plant Introduction, Bureau 
of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture; and Mr. 
Robert Pyle, Chairman, Botanic Gardens and Arboretums Com- 
mittee, National Association of Nurserymen. 
The Report of the Subcommittee on Education and Public 
Relations was submitted on September 18, 1935 to Hon. Frederic 
A. Delano, Chairman of the Planning Commission. 

City of New York 
Broadcasting—The Garden has continued, now for. the third 
consecutive year, its cooperation with the Municipal Broadcasting 
Station WNYC, 14 talks having been broadcast on the work of 
the Botanic Garden and on general botanical and horticultural 
topics. 
Department of Parks—Cooperation with the Department of 
Parks in the matter of WPA labor is reported on page 35. 
ther cooperation is recorded in the report of the horticulturist, on 
page 119. The Department also generously supplied trucks and 
drivers to bring to the Garden from Staten Island four loads of 
broken serpentine rock from the quarry of Mr. Ernest Flagg, 
Staten Island, for the Local Flora Section. For these gifts and 
services letters of thanks from the Botanic Garden Governing 
Committee have been sent to the Park Commissioner, Mr. Robert 
Moses. 
Sewer Line for the Zoo—During 1934 the Park Department, 
as a PWA project, began the construction of a Zoo in Prospect 
Park on the site of the old duck pond just across Flatbush Avenue 
from the Garden and nearly opposite our service gate. When 
application was made for a sewer connection from the Zoo to the 
trunk line on Flatbush Avenue, it was learned that that line had 
for. some time been over-loaded and no more permits for con- 
nection could be granted. The only alternative was to carry the 
Zoo line across the Botanic Garden and connect with the trunk on 
Washington Avenue. After conference with the Park Depart- 
ment, permission was given for this, a line being found which, for 
most of its length, followed the thirty-foot grass aisle between the 
Polemoniales on the north and the Gentianales on the south, cross- 
ing the tulip border and the Ixperimental Garden on the east. 
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