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Europe, we have botanic gardens of various extensions, and I am. 
very glad to see that you are beginning to develop more botanic 
gardens here in America. 
You already have one large botanical garden in New York, and 
possibly some persons may think that on this account it is not nec- 
essary to develop another garden here in Brooklyn. But New 
York City is a complex of ten or more towns, and the trip from 
Brooklyn to the Bronx is not easily made. It seems to me very 
fitting that you should have another garden here in Brooklyn, and 
I hope that its director will have great success with his planting, 
and that the Botanic Garden of the Brooklyn Institute, like the 
tree we have planted, may have a good vigorous growth. 
A NEW BOTANICAL JOURNAL 
With the authority of the Committee on Botanic Garden of the 
Board of Trustees, the Garden has entered into an agreement with 
the Botanical Society of America, whereby the two organizations 
will cooperate in the issuing of a botanical magazine, called the 
American Journal of Botany. The new publication, edited by a 
committee appointed by the Botanical Society, and published by 
the Garden, will be the official organ of the Society. For the 
present, each volume will comprise ten numbers of approximately 
forty-eight pages each, issued monthly except during July and 
ugust. 
By this cooperation there will be accomplished what could not 
well be done successfully by either party, acting alone. From the 
Society will come an efficient board of editors, representing a wide 
geographical range, and a wide range of botanical interests, an 
assured list of subscribers at the outset, a certain amount of finan- 
cial backing in addition to subscriptions, and all the very necessary 
advantages of a friendly, enthusiastic constituency. 
The Garden, for its part, affords the advantages of a fixed office 
of publication widely known to the botanical world, and equipped 
to care for the business end of the magazine with a minimum of 
expense; a place for the receipt and proper library care of all ex- 
