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resurfaced with " Laykold," a cold laid bituminous mix, " Type 4." 

 laid directly over the badly worn surface of the old walk. For 

 this work the City provided $1,000 from "General Accruals" for 

 the purchase of materials. Many yards of walk still remain sadly 

 in need ol resurfacing. Appropriations for this work have keen 

 requested for several years but have not yet keen granted. 



Tablets. — Several bronze tablets have keen placed during the 

 year, notably one at each end of "Cherry Walk." In a previous 

 report I have noted the importance of such tablets, which not only 

 make suitable recognition of gifts, but also serve to indicate to 

 the public that the Garden is dependent on special contributions 

 for many of the attractive features of the grounds. 



A ew Turnstiles. — Pasimeters, or registering turnstiles, were first 

 installed at the five entrance gates in 1915 — twenty-five years ago. 

 They have been in continuous service ever since, but in 1940 it 

 became evident that they needed replacing. Private funds became 

 available tor replacing three of them — one at the Richard Young- 

 gate, one at the north Flatbush Ave. gate, one at the Eastern 

 Parkway gate. They are of the new, three-arm type, supplied, as 

 were the old ones, by the Percy .Manufacturing Co. The other 

 two will be replaced early in 1941. 



The Garden and the Public 



Attendance 



Special attention is called to the figures of general attendance, 

 as recorded on pages 101 and 102. The large attendance on Cherry 

 Blossom Sunday and other spring days continues. The peak 

 figures for 1940 were 52,796 on the week-end, May 11-12, and 

 47,554 on May 18-19. On certain days the recorded attendance 

 for eight hours (10 a.m. 6 p.m.) is now greater than the at- 

 tendance for an entire month in the early years of the Garden. 



"Not a Flower Bed . . . Trampled" 



No. The quotation does not refer to the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden in 1940; it is from the Romanes Lecture, " Then and now," 

 delivered in Oxford, England, in 1935, by Prof. Gilbert Murray. 



