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Stamps and Bonds in the Garden on Sundays throughout the 
summer, beginning on May 17, and ending on September 6. Mrs. 
J. Shapiro, of the Women’s Division, was Chairman of Booths. 
A. booth, centrally located, was set up in the Garden on each 
Sunday when the weather permitted. The sales averaged be- 
tween $75 and $100 a Sunday. 
Victory Bonds. Of a total of 64 employees of all classes, 36 
have registered for the purchase of Victory Bonds. The amount 
paid in was $2,411.75. Of the “G” Bonds, members of staff pur- 
chased $2,500.00 worth during 1942. 
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Miscellaneous 
The New York Victory Garden Harvest Show was held at the 
Grand Central Palace September 21-23, combined with the 28th 
Annual Show of the American Dahlia Society, and with the 
Horticultural Society of New York, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
the New York Florists Club, the American Association of Nur- 
serymen, the Florists Telegraph Delivery Association, the Society 
of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, the Men’s 
Garden Club of America, and the Metropolitan Retail Florists 
Association cooperating. The Botanic Garden installed an exhibit 
of fruits of nearly 200 trees and shrubs growing in the Garden. 
A special section included fruits poisonous to the touch or to eat. 
An account of the show, in the Florists Exchange for September 
26 (p. 12), stated that, “The Brooklyn Botanic Garden was rep- 
resented by the most comprehensive exhibit of berried trees and 
shrubs ever staged at any exhibition in our memory.” For its 
exhibit the Garden received a gold medal award. 
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A Victory Garden Exhibit was installed in the Ingersoll Me- 
morial Public Library (Grand Army Plaza) from April 9 to 20. 
This included a number of flats showing the growth of seedlings 
of several vegetables, and how to plant them; also tools required 
for a home garden, and posters done by the staff artist of the 
Library, Mr. Gerhard R. Beyer. The Library displayed books 
on gardening. The exhibit was seen by several thousand persons. 
The Library staff entertained the Botanic Garden staff at tea on 
the ninth. 
