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meet the necessary expenses. The Board of Managers, at 
their meeting of November 18, authorized negotiations 
with the Federal Board with a view to terminating the 
contract. This was done, and the school in its old form 
ceased December 2. 
The Scientific Directors, at their meeting of December 11, 
authorized the continuation of not more than six of the 
former students as apprentice gardeners, without wages 
from the Garden and without the payment of fees by the 
Federal Board. This plan was put into effect December 
13, with four men, and its progress will be watched with 
much interest. 
In the meantime, attempt was made in the spring and 
early summer to establish the apprentice gardener system 
with four boys, from 16 to 18 years of age. One boy, 
James Granville, aged 16, began work in August, and has 
been uniformly satisfactory. 
During your absence in England, the requests for ap- 
propriations for 1921 were submitted, through the Park 
Department, to the Board of Estimate of the City of New 
York. Inspectors visited the Garden repeatedly through 
August and September and approved each of our requests 
without change in the amounts except a small reduction 
in one item. The total amount appropriated, however, 
falls short of our request by about $37,000, and compels 
us to postpone many urgent repairs or else provide our own 
funds for them. 
The Botanical Garden has received more valuable 
publicity than heretofore. Several articles appearing in 
the Journal have been reprinted or reviewed by scientific 
or trade periodicals, while the unusually successful displays 
of tulips in the spring and of dahlias in the summer and 
autumn, as well as other features, were well covered by 
the daily press. A number of special articles, dealing with 
the more interesting features of the Garden, have also 
been published, particularly in the New York Times. 
