lower Shows, the World’s Fairs, and elsewhere, which required 
the cooperative work of most of the staff members, the major part 
of the responsibility resting on the Horticulturist. These exhibits 
are designed primarily to be educational, and to interest the public 
in the opportunities for further botanical study offered by the 
Garden. 
The Bureau of Information, begun in 1911, is merely the com- 
bined knowledge of the staff utilized to the greatest advantage of 
the public by accurate scientific replies to their questions, This is 
detailed work which a a great deal of time of the Depart- 
ments of Instruction, the Curators of Plants, Herbaria, and Plant 
Pathology, the Horticulturist, the Librarian, and others. 
Information regarding the Garden and botanical matters is of- 
fered the public through various channels, and in this publicity for 
the Garden, Dr. Gager was especially interested. He realized 
very keenly how important it is from many points of view that 
the general public be kept informed of the Garden’s activities— 
lectures, courses, exhibits, flowers in bloom, new or rare plants, 
progress of research, etc. The method adopted of sending out 
news releases, every week or two, to the various metropolitan 
newspapers won his hearty approval. From time to time he him- 
self suggested topics for these news articles, and was pleased when 
releases were reprinted in newspapers in other parts of the country 
—once even by a newspaper in India. 
Radio ca a presented by the staff members have also been 
a regulat feature of the publicity program. 
The Botanic Garden was a co-sponsor, with the Extension Ser- 
vice of the New Jersey State College of Agriculture, of the Radio 
Garden Club which gave broadcasts on ornamental horticulture 
once or twice a week over WOR from March, 1932 until tel els 
1941, when the Club’s affiliation with WOR and the Mutual Net- 
work was severed. During this entire period a member of the 
staff served on the committee which formulated the programs and 
was responsible, with other members of the staff, for an average 
of about one broadcast per month. 
Since 1933, weekly programs throughout the greater part of the 
year have been given over WNYC. Programs have also been 
given from time to time over other stations. 
