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We are also under obligation to Mr. Clarke LE. Davis, vice 
president and technical director of the Virginia Dare I¢xtract Com- 
pany, Inc., for giving on November 16, the third of the five lectures 
in that course. His subject was, “Distillation from herbs, with 
demonstration.” 
WoMAN'S AUXILIARY 
On Thursday afternoon, April 16, the Woman's Auxiliary gave 
an indoor garden party and tea in the Laboratory Building. Mr. 
John H. Storer showed his superlative motion picture film, “Wings 
and Flowers,” in the Auditorium. This was followed by about 40 
exhibits, in the Rotunda, of Flower Arrangements and table set- 
tings by representatives of garden clubs and other individuals. 
At the Spring Meeting of the Auxiliary, on May 4, at the Lab- 
oratory Building, the guest of honor was Miss Mary Averill, 
honorary curator of oriental gardening and floral art. By re- 
quest, Dr. Gager gave a brief history of the Oriental Garden and 
of the services in connection therewith of Miss Averill, who has 
spent the larger part of her life in Eastern Asia and Japan, and 
while there made a special and prolonged study of flower arrange- 
— 
ment and oriental gardening. In recognition of her twenty-four 
years of service the Auxiliary presented here with a beautiful 
scroll, and a purse of $500. The scroll was designed by Miss 
Michalena Lel*rere Carroll of the Garden personnel. 
The Auxiliary also had charge of the serving of tea at the 
twenty-eighth Annual Spring Inspection of the Garden on Tues- 
day, May 12, and at the fifteenth annual Rose Garden Day, 
Tuesday, June 9. 
ANNUAL SPRING INSPECTION 
The twenty-eighth Annual Spring Inspection was held as usual 
on the second Tuesday in May, which fell on May 12.) About 450 
members and their friends attended, and the weather was ideal. 
As noted elsewhere, the serving of tea was in charge of the Social 
‘Committee of the Woman’s Auxihary, of which Mrs. Edwin H. 
Thatcher is chairman. About fifteen groups of guests were taken 
on the tour of the grounds, which included the model Victory 
