Daily News from New York, New York • 546

ig lursery Boon to Botanic Garden donation for the original Brooklyn siie. An ciliary Raises Funds raised br the Women's Auxiliary, under the chairmanship CI The acquisition of a 223-acre site in Kite ha wan, Westchester County, which enabled the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to move its teat nursery for plant breeding experiments, was deemed the "most important single development since the founding of the Botanic Garden 50 years afro." la a report by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, parent of the Botanic Garden, on the garden's progress over the past five decades, the institute said the removal of the teat nursery permitted expansion by more than an acre of the Children's Gardens. The tract, obtained at a fraction of its real value, was transferred to the garden by Elizabeth Van Brunt and her three sisters and was the largest ever received in garden history over and above the p. ALCOA ALUMINUM EMPIRE STATE COMIINE TO GIVE YOU LIFETIME PROTECTION CI 1 -E3 The time is Feb. 13.

1913. The historic Lefferta House (1777) was moved from its originsl site at Flatbush and Washington Aves. across the Botanic Garden to its present position in Prospect Park. oi airs. ionara r.

Moore, have been used to establish the test nursery for plant breeding experiments and to house the research department in a laboratory away from the pressures of city and public at the Westchester tract. The equipped laboratory building and facilities cost about of which about $90,000 has come from the federal government through the National Institute of Health. More than $200,000 came from gifts obtained by the Committee of the Botanic Garden Women's Auxiliary. The idea of a Botanic Garden was conceived more than 50 years ago by Prof. Franklin W.

Hooper, then director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Hooper inspired Alfred T. White, a borough philanthropist, to donate $25,000 in the name of "friends of the Institute" to get the idea off the ground. This was augmented In 1906 by another $25,000 when legislation enabling construction of the Garden was passed. Motto Became Reality Dr.

Charles Stuart Gager, who ABRAHAM i tssi I I 4 (HOT A MOLDED OR PLASTtf. OS A NAIUDOM PLASTIC iu niv rnino ci7c no dittedli 111 HIW VvLvirJliL Wfl I HI I LIU 1 guided the garden's destiny for more than 33 years, assumed his duties as first director of the garden on July 1, 1910. Under his guidance, the theory of "gardens within a garden became a reality and the motto "For the Service of the City and the Advancement of Botany" a working principle. Instrumental in the garden's II01IE COMMERCIAL liODERHlZATIOM tLswmiv wtTiimwiiis nns tf cupuiTiT wat tut growth was Ellen Eddy Shaw, who joined the garden as curator of elementary education in 1913 and remained there until her re tirement in 1945. She set up and directed for 30 years the popular short courses of "learning-by-do- that established the pattern for the garden's educational pro gram lor children.

Miss Eddy also founded the Children's Garden, the first of its kind in a botanic garden any SPRING SALE! SAVE CI STStt. BKJCI er U8MINSN Lifetime insulation Custom Installed Eliminates painting Waterproof Beautifies Fir Resistant 23-year labor and r.afenal guirar.fe NO DOWN PAYMENT FHJUt ts Tun-lOV riTMm where in the world. ENTIRE FRONT I i las bpn. I 1 as ret- I I I iwTlr -V Meaite I I II ir stt t.sttrw Ctrl I 1 i 1 lifil'i' II ENTIRE HOUSE A fund, established In her name in 1928 by the Women's Auxiliary, was turned into a fel lowship endowment fund at Miss EJJy'i request upon her retirement in 1945. This brings young teachers to the gardens for ex perience in the education program.

Maay Courses Offered v- rW A The garden offers many courses for those interested. These are given from September lined Bodice through May and most are three to five sessions each. Others are one-day classes offered for those who must travel to take them. Among the courses, which have tOOKXTM ft QUEENS BR 2-8500 NASSAU SUFFOLK IV 9-4400 llpT-'l CALL fiiiniiiir cottier beea taken by lawyers, teachers. doctors, housewives and business people are "Flowers and Fruits," "Landscaping Tour Home Grounds," "Spring Work in the Garden" and Gardening Indoors and Out." HEMES' lii IP tin '-JLtpuaffufifea' wifh full back zipper SPRING SALE MAUBU PUFF COD ViV Sizes 12 to 20 14Va to 24'z THE PLASTIC COVER THAT BREATHES C00LEI.

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