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docents have found it desirable to remain with visitors 
until quite late in the afternoon, but are not usually 
required before three o’clock, this method seems to be 
practicable and experiment will show whether it is satis- 
factory or not. 
The present edition of the guide-book is sufficient 
for immediate purposes. 
Floral Exhibitions 
The cooperation with the Horticultural Society of 
New York in providing exhibitions of plants and flowers 
open to the public on Saturday afternoons and continued 
during Sundays following has been considerably elabo- 
rated, so that such exhibitions have been held monthly 
from June until October. They have been viewed by 
many thousands of visitors and have been wholly successful 
without the expenditure of much money, the appro- 
priation of $400 for prizes made in the budget for 1911 
proving sufficient. Much interest in these exhibitions 
has been shown by enthusiastic friends of horticulture. 
Exploration 
By means of liberal contributions from members and 
friends of the Garden, the policy of conducting explora- 
tion work in regions botanically little known has been 
continued with great advantage to the collections, and 
important contributions to knowledge have been thus 
secured. Work in western and central Cuba was accom- 
plished by myself during the latter part of February 
and the month of March, assisted by Mrs. Britton and 
by Mr. John F. Cowell, Director of the Buffalo Botanic 
Garden. Dr. J. K. Small, Head Curator, explored por- 
tions of the Florida Everglades and of the Florida Keys 
during February; Mr. Percy Wilson, Assistant Curator, 
spent parts of December, 1910, and January, 1911, in 
western Cuba; Dr. J. A. Shafer, Special Agent, explored 
portions of the difficult mountain region of eastern Cuba 
