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APPENDIX 12 
ANNOUNCEMENTS * 
By C. Stuart GacER, Director 
During the brief five minutes allotted to each of our preliminary 
speakers, | would lke to make a few announcements that are not 
confined to the events of our anniversary week. I[ would like to 
announce my personal indebtedness to various organizations and 
individuals without whose cooperation and support literally noth- 
ing could have been accomplished in establishing and developing 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to its present transitional stage. 
I speak of it as a transitional stage, for a botanic garden is not 
like a statue or a building; it never becomes a completed work. 
It is an organic thing, beginning as a germ and continuing for 
all time toward a standard of perfection which will never be fully 
realized. 
The Botanic Garden, like the museums and other semi-public 
institutions of this city, articulates with the City through the 
Department of Parks. This has always been a most happy and 
helpful relationship. There have been six Park Commissioners 
since the Garden was established. With the approval and support 
of Commissioner Kennedy, in 1910, the plans for the initial de- 
velopment of our buildings and grounds were approved and the 
appropriations secured. 
The second Commissioner was in ofhce during the Borough 
Presidency of my good friend, Mr. Lewis H. Pounds, and is hon- 
oring us with his presence here this evening as our present Bor- 
ough President. It was Mr. Raymond V. Ingersoll who secured 
the planting of the trees on the west side of Washington Avenue 
opposite our conservatories—a much needed improvement. Dur- 
ing his commissionership, also, the * South Addition’? was  in- 
corporated in the area of the Garden, and we are indebted for 
his cooperation in this. The very helpful and pleasant relation- 
ship established at that time has been continued since Mr. Ingersoll, 
— 
to our great satisfaction, became the President of the Borough 
of Brooklyn. 
* Address delivered at the Twenty-fifth Anniversary exercises of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, May 13, 1935 
