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Fingerprinting. Early in September the Garden received from 
Mayor LaGuardia a request that all employees be fingerprinted 
for War Emergency Identification. All employees cheerfully 
complied and the matter was taken care of by our business office. 
The records were forwarded to the office of the Mayor. 
New York Naval Hospital. Bouquets of flowers have been sent 
once a week throughout the season to this hospital, located at the 
Brooklyn Navy Yard. These flowers came from the flower border 
of our model Victory Garden. Many potted begonias were also 
brought into bloom at Christmas for this same hospital. 
The Office of War Information was supplied with information 
on the general subject of the proposed utilization of native wild 
plants of various European countries for food. 
Fort Tilden, New York (C. L. Malaspina, Captain) was sup- 
phed with a quantity of plants and palm leaves for decoration for 
a dance held on October 10. 
Camp Upton, Suffolk County, Long Island (Hans C. Jesperson, 
Lt. Col. Infantry, Commanding) was supplied on May 29, with 
about 2000 ornamental plants for the planting of a flower garden. 
Previously we supplied seeds of 25 kinds of flowering plants for 
the same garden. 
About two tons of scrap metal were delivered on October 28, 
to the Department of Purchase of the City. This included dis- 
carded garden tools and implements, and hundreds of cuts that 
have been used during the past twenty-five years or more to 
illustrate our publications. 
The Civilian Defense Volunteer Office was provided with ger- 
minated seeds of corn, wheat, and other cereals for use in a salad 
to be used at a luncheon to be given by that organization at the 
Hotel Wellington, Manhattan, November 18 (Mrs. Irvin Bussing, 
Chairman, Consumers Committee). 
The Service Club Library (U.S.O.), Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, 
was supplied with a quantity of ornamental plants the latter part 
of October by the Department of [Elementary Instruction. 
TRUSTEE MEETING AT THE GARDEN 
It was an inspiration of the newly elected president of the 
Board of Trustees, Mr. Adrian Van Sinderen, to arrange a series 
