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The Garden has recently purchased, of Miss Gertrude Burling- 
ham, a set of exsiccati, comprising fifty species of the Lactariae 
of North America, accompanied by sixteen photographs of fresh 
specimens, 
The last meeting of the Garden seminar, until next fall, was 
held at the Central Museum on Wednesday afternoon, June 11. 
Among those present were Dr. O. FE. White, of the Bussey Insti- ° 
tution, Harvard University, who also visited the Garden on 
April 19. 
From May 29 to June 2 the curator of plants collected living 
plants in the vicinity of Amagansett and Montauk, L. I., for the 
Local Flora Section of the Garden. At the same time he con- 
ducted a field party for the Department of Botany of the Brook- 
lyn Institute. About 75 living plants were collected, several 
packages of seed, and a few herbarium specimens. 
Miss Agnes Vinton Luther, accompanied by a class of 20 
from the Newark, N. J., Normal School, visited the Garden on 
June 24, under the guidance of the curator of public instruction. 
The curator of public instruction, together with Mr. 
Leonard Barron, editor of the Garden Magazine, on the after- 
noon of June 24, acted as judges in a garden and flower exhibit. 
conducted at the Girls’ High School Annex, Public School No. 
42, Brooklyn. The vegetables and flowers were grown by the 
girls in their own gardens and window boxes, at their homes, 
from seeds purchased at the rate of a cent a package from the 
School Garden Association of Boston. A silver medal and two 
bronze medals were awarded to the three girls having the best 
exhibits, also five pins to the next best exhibits in each of the 
four different clubs of the school. ‘he medals and pins, formerly 
furnished by the teachers themselves, were presented this year 
by the New York Sunday IV orld. 
