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CoOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS 
The Botanic Garden has co6perated with many organizations in 
carrying on activities in botany and horticulture. The Garden is 
one of the three divisions of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences, and has assisted the Department of Botany of the In- 
stitute in the arrangement of meetings, lectures, and demonstra- 
tions. The Garden has also codperated with the Brooklyn Mu- 
seum in furnishing material for various types of exhibits. 
Cooperation with the Board of Education and the New York 
public schools included work by the Department of [Elementary 
Instruction of the Garden and the Director of the City School 
Garden on various courses and projects. In addition, a repre- 
sentative of the Botanic Garden has served on committees of the 
Board of Education in planning courses in botany and nature 
“In service credit” for courses offered at the Garden is 
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study. 
given by the Board. 
Dr. Gager took a prominent 
cultural Society of New York, serving as Vice Chairman of the 
Frequent exhibits have been 
part in the activities of the Horti- 
3oard of Directors for several years. 
made by the Garden at the Horticultural Society’s shows, a gold 
medal being awarded for an exhibit of ornamental fruits at the 
Victory Garden Harvest Show (1942), and a silver medal for an 
exhibit of cereals, featuring hybrid corn (1944). 
The Garden has participated in the International Flower Shows 
since 1918, and for many years Dr. Gager was a member of the 
Flower Show Committee. For its exhibits, which have been 
under the direction of the Horticulturist, Mr. Montague Free, the 
Botanic Garden has received numerous awards, including gold 
medals for the demonstration of plant propagation (1933), meth- 
ods of pruning (1934), plants for rock gardens (1936), exhibit 
of xerophytes (1937), ivy garden of seventy-six species and forms 
(1941), for which it also received the Bulkley Gold Medal of the 
Garden Club of America, and methods of graftage (1942). Silver 
medals were received for a collection of crocus species (1933), an 
exhibit of garden operations (1935), a knot garden with herbs 
(1938), and an exhibit of carnivorous plants (1940). 
