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control in 1933 and devised a hot water treatment for iris planting 

 stock which is effective in eradicating the thrips." 



American Association of Botanical Gardens 



The American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arbore- 

 tnms was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, September 25, as an 

 affiliate of the American Institute of Park Executives, on prac- 

 tically the same relationship as the American Association of Zo- 

 ological Parks and Aquariums. Officers elected are: Donald 

 Wyman, horticulturist, Arnold Arboretum, chairman; Henry T. 

 Skinner, Morris Arboretum, vice chairman ; C. E. Godshalk, di- 

 rector, Morton Arboretum, secretary; C. Stuart (lager, director. 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and H. Teuscher, director of technical 

 services, Montreal Botanic Garden, directors. The official pub- 

 lication of the new organization is a section in the magazine 

 Parks and Recreation, beginning with the December issue. 



Miscellaneous 



The Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibit of Contem- 

 porary American Industrial Art from April 30 to September 15. 

 The Garden supplied about 50 potted plants u^cd in connection 

 with the installation of this exhibit. 



The Brooklyn Civic Council, through its barks and Playgrounds 

 Committee, Mr. Roy II. Mann, Chairman, held a mass meeting on 

 January 17 to discuss the question of vandalism in our City parks. 

 The director of the Garden was one of six speakers at the meeting 

 which was attended by about 800 men and women. 



The twenty-seventh International Flower Show was held at the 

 Grand Central Palace during the week of March 11, under the 

 auspices of the Horticultural Society of Xew York and the Xew 

 York Florists Club. The Garden made an exhibit of Insec- 

 tivorous Plants, in naturalistic setting, for which it received a 

 silver medal and a special award of $150. More than thirty items 

 about our exhibit appeared in the daily papers and other publica- 

 tions. Special attention was called to the exhibit by the Gardeners 

 Chronicle (London) for April 27, 1040. 



