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of Grattage in all its aspects. The exhibit, which proved very 
popular and educationally effective, was given a gold medal and 
a special cash award of $500. 
In connection with the exhibit, the horticulturist, Mr. Free, who 
planned it and supervised its installation, prepared a special Leaflet 
(Series XXIX. No. 3-4) on “The art of graftage.” This was 
distributed free at the Show to those who asked for it. 
Hospitals 
Nurses Training Classes. On account of the extra demand for 
nurses, owing to the war, all hospitals were obliged to discontinue 
for the duration the attendance of nurses training classes for the 
work we have specially planned for them and given regularly dur- 
ing the past sixteen years. The total enrollment of nurses in 
these classes in 1941 was 232. 
Queen's General Hospital (Municipal) at 161st Street and 82nd 
Drive, Jamaica, Borough of Queens, was given 18 shrubs for 
planting the Hospital grounds. 
Triboro Hospital on the same grounds as Queens General 
(Parsons Blvd. and 82nd Drive, Jamaica) was given 1,100 orna- 
mentals. 
Miscellaneous 
New York Zoological Park. Mr. Free reports that on two 
occasions fresh bamboo shoots were provided for feeding the giant 
pandas, and in addition 40 clumps of hardy bamboo for planting 
at the zoo under the supervision of our foreman gardener, Mr. 
George Bishop. 
Metropolitan Museum of Art. A quantity of living plant mate- 
rial was supplied for an exhibit to illustrate Chinese life and art. 
The Garden Club of America was supplied with miscellaneous 
plant material for their exhibit on plants in war work. 
The Garden is under special obligation to Miss Martha Louise 
Grant, who collaborated with Mrs. Henry K. Svenson in giving 
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the lecture and demonstration on “The Use of Herbs in Cooking, 
on November 9. This was the second lecture in Course V3, 
“Herbs: Their Cultivation and Uses.” 
