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The " Eorsythia-for-Brooklyn " movement, of which Mrs. Ed- 

 ward ('. Blum is chairman, received our whole-hearted support. 

 I his department cooperated by issuing news releases and making 

 arrangements with the newspapers for photographs of the plantings 

 <>i Forsythia on the grounds. 



The Committee on Prizes and Scholarships, of Brooklyn College, 

 awarded to Miss Marjorie Blaustein the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 Scholarship tor tin 1 spring term of 1940, and to Mr. Eugene Rosen- 

 blum the same scholarship for the fall term. Both of the recipients 

 (h this scholarship elected our course in Trees and Shrubs. 



Mi'. Hyman Sindel, teacher-in-training at Manual Training IPS., 

 and a graduate student at Brooklyn College, the recipient of the 

 Rutherford I Matt scholarship, elected the laboratory course in 

 flowering plants and ferns with Miss Rusk. 



Throughout the year docentry was carried on for garden chilis, 

 and other associations or classes, such as the Reconciliation Trips, 

 Inc.. the nurses-in-training from I lackensack Hospital, the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, St. John's College of Pharmacy, Yosian Natural- 

 ists, to mention only a few of these organizations. 



Mr. Rutherford Piatt, of Platt-Forbes, Xew York City, a former 

 student in our courses, gave us a lecture on March Id on spring and 

 summer flowers, entitled " Preview of Spring." The lecture was 

 illustrated by Mr. Piatt's beautiful kodachrome slides. About 100 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden "alumni" attended. Mr. Piatt, a for- 

 mer student in our courses, has lectured at several centers and 

 declares that he derived his inspiration from his studies with us. 



Postcard Bulletins" were mailed to members of the Garden 

 ( 1 ) on April 2d, telling of the display of daffodils and mag- 

 nolias; (2) on May 20, telling of the tulips in flower; (3) on 

 May 22, announcing the distribution of surplus plant propaga- 

 tion material; and (4) on October 30, calling attention to the 

 brilliant tall coloring of the Euonymus hedge in the Laboratory 

 Plaza, and to the display of chrysanthemums. 



ho enlarge our collection oi living drug plants, we have corre- 

 sponded with the Puerto Rico Agricultural Experimental Station 

 at Mayaguez, Puerto Pico. This station has already sent us seeds 

 ol Cinchona succirubra, one of the species which yields quinine; 

 and oi Guaiacum officinale, the Lignum- Vitae, which yields the 



