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the work and results of a garden conducted by teachers of ex- 
perience with pupils of ability, and which will serve not only as 
a model of what may be accomplished, but also as an inspiration 
to the highest practicable attainment in one’s own work. 
So far as the writer knows, there is offered nowhere in the 
United States an opportunity for so thorough and practical a 
preparation for teachers of children’s gardening as is implied in 
the plan here outlined. The work, however, is of vital impor- 
tance, educationally and socially, and is worthy of the most 
thorough preparation. 
Experimental Grounds.—Experimental work in plant breeding 
and along various other lines makes very urgent the setting aside 
of an area of about one acre for this purpose. In addition to 
being essential in research work, the cultures of pedigreed plants, 
and other plantings within this area, would be of great educational 
value to visitors interested in problems of heredity, evolution, plant 
disease, and the improvement of commercial plants. 
Propagating House and Nursery—In the First Annual Report 
of the Garden* attention was called to the fact that, as soon as 
our conservatories were completed, their entire space will be 
needed for exhibition collections, and the work of instruction and 
investigation. I beg to quote here, as still pertinent, the last two 
sentences of the paragraph cited: 


“Tt is already clearly evident that, within a very short time after the 
completion of our plant houses, their entire space will be needed for our 
exhibition collections, os the work of instruction and investigation to 
which two of the hot are now assigned. This will necessitate the 
erection of a ae house where the collections may be suitably 
prepared and cared for, and it will also become increasingly urgent that 
we have a garden area EaIEISey to the propagating house for nursery and 
experimental purposes.” 
Urgent Need of Additional Building—As stated in my quar- 
terly report for the period ending September 30, 1913, the organi- 
zation and equipment of the Garden, and the acquisition of scien- 
tific and teaching equipment had proceeded to such an extent that 
we had quite outgrown the capacity of the first section of the new 
building before we took possession of it. The need for the second 
* Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 1: 44. Ap 1912. 
