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5. That the importance of ornamental gardening should not be 
lost sight of as a help in maintaining individual and community 
morale. 
The Botanic Garden has endeavored to cooperate in all the 
aspects of this intelligent and broad program, which embodies, with 
minor shifting of emphasis, the main points of our regular program 
of education and public service. 
Victory Garden Public Meeting 
Botanic Garden members and the general public were invited 
to a public Victory Garden meeting in our auditorium on February 
Dr. Gager stated the purpose of the meeting as being to 
emphasize the need of gardening as a necessary part of the war 
effort, to stimulate interest, and to explain the various ways in 
which the Botanic Garden is prepared to cooperate. The program 
continued as follows: 
1. Defense Stamp Talk. Mrs. Tremper Longman, Speakers 
Bureau, Kings County Defense Bond Committee 
2. Welcome to delegates 
a. Brooklyn Civil Council, Mrs. John H. Jackson 
b. American Women’s Voluntary Services, Mrs. Harold 
D. Vernam 
c. Response, Mrs. E. C. Blum (Member, Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden Woman’s Auxiliary), Chairman Victory Gar- 
den Committee of the Brooklyn Civilian Defense Vol- 
unteer Office 
d. Response, Mr. George E. Burkhardt, County Agent 
under Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and 
Home Economics, State of New York. 
3. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Program in the Victory Gar- 
den Movement, Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, Curator of Ele- 
mentary Instruction 
4, Hlustrated Talk on Victory Gardens, Mr. Montague Free, 
Horticulturist 
5. Announcements. Printed Announcements of Courses distrib- 
uted: Registration for Courses 
