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to the 8th grades be allowed to write compositions on “The 
Preservation of Our Native Plants” particularly in the parks and 
the vicinity of Greater New York. list of topics on trees, 
shrubs, wild flowers and ferns was also sent for the use of the 
teachers and separates from the 1OUENAL OF THE NEw York 
Botanica, GARDEN of the articles on ‘Wild Flowers Needing 
Protection” illustrated with colored plates, were also sent to 
each school. Eight of these colored plates have been framed, 
ing the income of the fund presented some years ago by the 
tele Olivia E. and Caroline Phelps Stokes, ate one set as been 
given on Arbor Day, May 8, to each of th d the 
competition. The plates selected were those of the Jack-in-the- 
pulpit, spring beauty, wild columbine, bird’s foot violet, wild 
pink, wild azalea, pink moccasin flower and the American or 
mountain laurel. A selection will be made from these com- 
— known as the ‘Stokes Prize Essays” for jeans in 
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SUMMER LECTURES, 1914 
Lectures will be delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Museum 
Building of the Garden, Brom Park, on Saturday afternoons, at 
four o’clock, as follow: 
June 6. ‘The ey the Basis of Success in Gardening and in 
Other Lines of Productive Work,” by Mr. George T. Powell. 
June 13. ‘“‘Diseases of Potatoes,” by Dr. Mel T. Cook 
June 20. “Floral and Scenic Features of Porto Rico,” by Dr. 
owe. 
June 27. ‘Haiti, the Negro Republic,’’ by Mr. G. V. Nash. 
July 4. “The Secret of the Heather,” by Mr. F. V. Coville. 
July 11. ‘Explorations in Mexico,” by Dr. W. A. Murrill. 
July 18. ‘Arctic and Alpine Plants,” by Dr. P. A. Rydberg. 
July 25. ‘Wild and Cultivated Plants of Bermuda,” by Dr. 
N. L. Britton, 
The lectures, which occupy an hour, will be illustrated by 
lantern slides and otherwise. Doors closed at 4:00; late comers 
admitted at 4:15. 
