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Courses OF INSTRUCTION 
T conducted the following “ Courses for Members and the Gen- 
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eral Public ” at the Botanic Garden: 
Practical Gardening. A Saturday afternoon course. Five talks 
with demonstrations. 
Plants in the Home: How to Grow Them. Five talks with 
demonstrations. 
PERSONAL ACTIVITIES 
T acted as a judge at the following flower shows: 
March 18. Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inter- 
national Flower Show, New York City. 
August 27. Garden Club lexhibits, Dutchess County Fair, Rhine- 
beck, New York. 
September 12. Flower Show of the Garden Club of the Con- 
solidated and Affiliated Gas Companies, New York City. 
_ An official trip to the West Coast under the auspices of the 
Botanic Garden made it possible for me to make many profitable 
horticultural contacts. 
The first stop was made in Cincinnati where the second annua! 
meeting and the first exhibition of the American Rock Garden 
Society was held. I presided at the meetings and gave an illus- 
trated talk on “ Plants for the Rock Garden.” 
At St. Louis, the Missouri Botanical Garden, including the com- 
paratively new development at Grey Summit, was visited. At 
Grey Summit (near St. Louis), a tract of about 1,600 acres of 
diversified contours provides almost unlimited horticultural possi- 
bilities. It is here, in the extensive ranges of houses, that the 
orchids are grown to blooming stage for display in the conserva- 
tories of “ Shaw’s Garden,” in St. Louis. 
At Colorado Springs, I had an opportunity of seeing alpine 
plants growing in the nursery (at Upton Gardens) and also in 
the wild. I addressed the Broadmoor Garden Club on the subject 
The members evinced much interest in 
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of “ kock Gardening, 
the work of the Botanic Garden. 
In the high country around Santa Fé and in the vicinity of the 
Grand Canyon, many plants were noted which should prove of 
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value in eastern rock gardens. 
