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Guide No. 14. The Local Flora Section (Native Wild Flower 
Garden) of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 27 pages, 18 illustra- 
tions. By Henry K. Svenson. 
A partial list of Gides to the Plantations and Collections may 
be found on the back cover page of this Report, and a complete 
list will be supplied on receipt of request by mail or telephone. 
Lhe publication of two special Victory Garden Leaflets is re- 
ported on page 48. 
Periodical Publication. Six technical and semi-technical arti- 
cles have been published by members of staff in scientific journals, 
and some 38 popular articles in newspapers and popular magazines. 
Public lectures and addresses have heen given by 17 members 
of the Garden personnel—25 at the Garden and 90 elsewhere in 
Brooklyn and in other boroughs and cities. These addresses are 
listed on pages 137-144 of this Report. 
Broadcasting included 18 talks over station WNYC. These 
included special Victory Garden talks. Two half-year Radio Pro- 
grams were distributed to members and others. 
Bureau of Public Information. The Victory Garden movement 
and other aspects of the war effort have greatly increased the 
number of inquiries addressed to the Garden on all aspects of 
plant life and gardening. We have already recorded (p. 50) the 
special provision for answering inquiries on gardening by having 
members of staff stationed at the Model Victory Garden. 
Elementary Instruction 
The Report of the curator of elementary instruction may be 
found on pages 91-96. 
Aims and Ideals. In a series of three attractive, illustrated 
booklets, the members of the Department of Elementary Instruc- 
tion have presented a survey of the work of the Department as it 
has developed during the past 29 years. The first booklet, pub- 
lished in June, 1941, entitled Our Pattern, contains the following 
informative statement of the aims and ideals by Miss Shaw, curator 
of elementary instruction, who initiated this unique and excellent 
work and who has supervised it from the beginning : 
“Our pattern as here set forth includes the following: self- 
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discipline, knowledge at first hand, dignity of labor, financial sup- 
