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Commercial High School, the Girl Scouts of Flatbush, and others, 
have endowed trees in the Garden. Mrs. Edward C. Blum made 
a contribution for a planting of Forsythia. 
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The Botanic Garden has been fortunate in having the support o 
many friends, As one of the three divisions of the Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, it has been under the administration of the 




SPECIAL GIFTS 1926-1943 
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THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS 
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1926 ‘27 28 '29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 ‘37 38 39 40 4 42 43 
YEAR 

“HART 3. Gifts to the Botanic Garden for special purposes—such as the 
Maddox and Young entrance gates, the Jenkins and Hills bridges, the 
borne Memorial, the Cranford Rose Garden. 
Board of Trustees of the Institute. Mr. A. Augustus Healy was 
President of the Board of Trustees from 1895 until 1920, during 
the period in which efforts were made to establish a garden, and 
the first ten years of its development. Mr. Frank L. Babbott was 
President from 1920 to 1928, and he was followed by Mr. Edward 
