tory Building on August 31. This meeting was conducted by 
the Women’s Division of the Kings County Welfare Committee 
of the War Savings Staff of the U.S. Treasury Department. The 
meeting was arranged for by Mrs. Thomas Sturgis, and was 
attended by over 400 people. 
Sale of Defense Stamps and Bonds in the Garden.—The 
Kings County War Savings Staff, as in 1942, sold Defense Stamps 
and Bonds in the Garden on Sundays throughout the summer, 
beginning on May 23 and ending on October 2. The sales totaled 
$958.65. Mrs. J. Shapiro, Chairman of Booths, Women’s Divi- 
sion, was in charge. 
Woman’s Auxiliary._-The Auxiliary gave to the Garden the 
sum of $500.00, $300.00 of which was applied to the new planting 
of 76 flowering cherry trees on the Esplanade. 
Cooperation with Other Institutions.—In the reports on Re- 
search, mention is made of cooperation with other institutions, 
including the Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases and the 
Division of Forest Pathology of the United States Department 
of Agriculture. In the report of the Curator of the Herbarium 
the reciprocal loans of specimens for study are noted. From the 
Mycological collection two type specimens were loaned to Dr. 
Anna E. Jenkins, Division of Mycology and Disease Survey, 
Bureau of Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md., and specimens 
orto Rican fungi to Prof. H. H. Whetzel, Department of 
Plant Pathology, Cornell University. 
The Garden is building up its collection of flowering crab apples 
and ornamental cherries. With this in view, cions have been 
obtained from the Arnold Arboretum, Mr. Richard E. Horsey of 
Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y., Mr. B. Y. Morrison, Bureau of 
Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md., N. Y. State Institute of 
Agriculture, Farmingdale, N. Y., and Mr. John C. Wister of the 
Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticultural Foundation, Swarthmore, Pa. 
In connection with iris hybridization studies, Prof. 
Blakeslee, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., gave active 
cooperation. 
Contributions of Plants.About 100 surplus conservatory 
plants were supplied for a greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy 
Yard. Eighty-two trees and shrubs were given to beautify the 

