48 



Technical and Popular Articles. — Appendix 2 (p. 152) gives 

 the list of technical, semi-popular, and popular articles and re- 

 views published by members of the Garden personnel during the 

 year to the number of 6 technical, and 118 popular and semi- 

 popular. 



Newspaper Articles. — tn 1940 Miss Shaw completed her thir- 

 teenth year as the writer of gardening articles in the New York 

 Sun, having contributed during the year eight popular articles on 

 plant life and gardening. During the thirteen-year period she 

 has contributed a total of more than 465 articles. 



With 1940 Mr. Free completed his eighth year with the Sun as 

 "Conductor" of the "Garden Guide," their question and answer 

 "Column/' publishing 52 installments. Me also contributed to 

 the garden page of the Sun nine popular articles on the general 

 subject of gardening. 



Newspaper Publicity. — This was the L9th year that the De- 

 partment of Public Instruction, under Dr. Graves, has sent to 

 the press regular news releases, concerning Botanic Garden activi- 

 ties; the total number for N40 was 47. In addition, there have 

 appeared many other news items about the Garden. The total 

 number of clippings received for the year from the clipping bureau 

 is 813. 



Guide No. 10. — '* Gardens within a Garden: .1 general guide to 

 the (/rounds of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden," was published as 

 the Mav, 1929, number of the Record. The demand for it was 

 large, and it shortly became out of print. A second and enlarged 

 edition of this guide was published as the July, 1940, number of 

 the Rkcori), comprising 57 pages, 21 illustrations, and a folded 

 map of the grounds inserted at the end. dlie map was prepared 

 under the direction of Dr. Alfred Gundersen, curator of plants, 

 by Mr. E. D, Weldon, of the American Geographical Society. 

 It was printed in two colors, green and brown, by the George Grady 

 Tress, Inc., of New York. A copy of the Guide has been sent 

 gratis to every member of the Garden and of the Woman's Auxili- 

 ary. It has been placed on sale at twenty-five cents a copy; by 

 mail, thirty cents. 



Botanic Garden Leaflets, Series XXI, No. 7-8, on " Hay fever: 

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