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NOTES 
On August 17, 1914, Acting Mayor McAneny signed the agree- 
ment by which the tract of about eight acres of land lying opposite 
the Willinck entrance to Prospect Park, and south of the origina! 
boundary of the Garden, was turned over to the Brooklyn Insti- 
tute of Arts and Sciences for botanic garden purposes. With this, 
the total area of the Garden is approximately fifty acrés. Pre- 
liminary plans have been drawn for its development. 
The second contract for grading was awarded by the Board of 
Park Commissioners on May 21, 1914, to Messrs. Norton & 
Gorman, at the bid price of $9,979.20. Work began on July 25, 
and was completed on September 10. 
The work on the construction of new paths in the Garden, 
begun on May 6, 1914, by Di Menna & De Paola, was practically 
completed on October 31. 
On August 27-30, Mr. Taylor was collecting ae for the 
Garden in the vicinity of Copake Falls, N. Y. 
Among the plants now bearing fruit in the tropical economic 
house are the pineapple, and the fig (Ficus carica). Though the 
young fig tree is only about 30 inches high, it has produced twelve 
figs. In the same house the pistillate plants of hemp have attained 
the remarkable height of over 17 feet. 
Visitors to the Garden since the last issue of the REcorpD in- 
clude Mr. Harold Wingate, Brooklyn, Mr. A. D. Darbishire, 
lecturer in zoology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and 
Dr. Otto Appel, Geheimrat Regierungsrat, professor in the Kaiser- 
liche Biologischen Anstalt fiir Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Berlin- 
Dahlem, Germany. Prof. Appel was advised by the German 
consul-general of New York not to try to return to his native land 
until conditions in Europe become more normal. 

