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SPRING INSPECTION OF GROUNDS, BUILDINGS AND 
COLLECTIONS 
Members of the Garden and their friends were invited by the 
Women’s Auxiliary and a committee of the Board of Managers 
to be present on the afternoon of May 7 to inspect the grounds, 
buildings and collections. Weather conditions ies to be 
ideal, and about three hundred mem and their guests in 
fifty or more motor-cars assembled, with fe banner car bearing a 
Garden flag at the head of the procession. 
After the plants in the Main Conservatory Range and the 
flower gardens adjoining had been inspected under the guidance 
of members of the Garden staff, Dr. W. Gilman Thompson, 
President of the Board of Managers, made an address of ici 
and then introduced Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief, w 
briefly outlined the development of the Garden reservation a 
two hundred and fifty acres of land in Bronx Park. 
e procession left the Main Conservatory Range at four 
o'clock for an inspection of the Herbaceous Garden Valley, the 
Gorge of the Bronx, the Hemlock Forest, and the Water Gardens 
and Lakes, spending part of the time in the cars and part on foot. 
Tea was served at five o'clock in the Museum Building, in the 
Gallery of the old Chinese paintings of tea presented by Dr 
Reginald H. Sayre, who was present and gave an interesting 
account of the paintings. A living tea plant was also exhibited, 
and various questions were answered regarding the origin and 
preparation of different kinds of te: 
The guests were afterwards ae through the museums, 
library, and herbarium. A large collection of paintings of cac- 
tuses in flower recently made by Miss Mary E. Eaton were on 
exhibition in the herbarium. 
THE PRESERVATION OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS 
Early in February a circular letter was sent to all the principals 
of the public schools and high schools of the Bronx asking for 
their codperation and requesting that the classes from the 4th 
