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A Course for Incurable CollectorsIf a visit to a Gallery or Museum starts you thinkingabout how you might collect artworks yourself, you willfind helpful a new series of lectures organized by theBrooklyn Museum. This year's Luncheon LectureSeries is called %u201c Meet Our Curators%u201d , and will beginwith a talk on October 4 by the Museum%u2019s Curator ofPaintings and Sculpture, Linda S. Ferber. Each curatorspeaking in the five-lecture-series will show favoritepieces from the collections and discuss guidelines inselecting works of art for purchase.If you want to participate inthe luncheon as well asthe lecture, you must subscribe to the full five lectuseries, Thursdays at noon at the Museum, Oct. 4, Nc1, Dec. 6, March 6 and April 3. Individual lectures, alpm, cost $2 at the door and are free to members.%u2018%u2018Meet the Curators%u201d . Luncheon Lecture Seric Sponsored by the Community Committee of the Brook! Museum. First Lecture, Oct. 4. 1 p.m. Brooklyn Museu Eastern Parkway. 638-5000. S2, free to members up presenting a Membership card.A Rose ByAny Other NamePeter Malins quickly walks the 15 blocksfmm his home to work every morning, rainor shine,puts in eight hours or gardening,and walks back home, every day. all year.Anyone looking for fitness might considerthe combination, for at 62. Malins, who isthe Rosarian at the Brooklyn BotanicMini-TopIf your kids don%u2019t know themeaning of the phrase %u201c Linder theBig Top%u201d , now%u2019s your chance. TheCircus is coming to town on Sept.29 and 30 when theBusker BrothersCircus performs at Jacob Riis Parkin the Gateway National Recreation Area. Performances in a tentby many of the leading stars of theBig Apple Circus will take place at2 and 5pm on both days. There willalso be workshops at 3:30 each dayin which circus performers willshow some of the tricks of thetrade and talk about life in thecircus. Some of the artists you willsee include Abigail Allen and herwonder horse, juggler MichailMochen, magician Jeff Sheridan,clowns Paul Binder and Dale Scott,and the marvelous acrobatictroupe, the Back Street Flyers.Busker Mini-Circus and Circus Arts workshops. Sat & Sun. Sept. 29 and 30. At Jacob Riis Park, Gateway National Recreational Area. Performances at 2pm and 5pm, workshops at 3:30pm. Free on a first come-first served basis. For information call 474-4600.CultureBritishndra, a>m thengland,JitionalIves onler.igh theand ons firstileased! aheadhe folkjrs andstrainsteys inCoffeeEihicai ept. 28nhniirnid tea: lie. For CultureGarden, combines a vitality and serenitywhich makes life in a rose garden look likea pretty good idea. If you should decide topursue the rose-garden route to improvingyour body and spirit, as well as yourbackyard or terrace, you will be helped byPeter Malins%u2019 Rose Book, the newlypublished work by Malins and anotherBrooklyn horticulturalist, M.M. Graff.After 30 years at the Garden, nearlytwenty of them as Rosarian, Malins hascome to know his 5.000 bushes well andhe has shared his life%u2019s worth of expertisein the book. He says that writing a bookabout roses which is different from allother books wasn't easy, since all containsimilar materials about rose care. Malinscomments. %u201c You can't make it different bytelling someone to plant a rosebushupside down.So Malins and Graff have taken on aproblem which other authors seem to haveshied away from, the question o f whichvariety of roses will do best in the averagegarden. Even some beautiful and heavilyadvertised roses really won%u2019t perform wellin many climates, and Malins%u2019 book isespecially good for Brooklynites, since hisjudgements are based on roses growing inthis area, %u201c We may make some enemiesamong nurseries which sell roses bymaking such strong judgements%u201d Malinscomments.Malins was born on a farm in Latvia andwhen the Russians occupied his countryhe went to Austria, then studied in Munichafter the end of the war. He earned aMasters Degree in Agronomy at theTechnical Institute of Munich, then cameto the U.S. where a friend lived in Brooklyn.He was hired at theBotanic Garden assoon as he applied.Malins turned to M.M Graff for herexperience in writing. Graff, who haswritten several books about the trees andtrails in New York's parks, also took manyof the beautiful black and white photos inthe new book, and joined in both researchand description. The two writers will joinin sianmq their new work at the Membersonly Rose Day on Sept. 2/ %u2014l.h.Peter Malins' Rose Book, by PeterMalins and M.M. Graff Dodd. Mead & Co.New York, 1979. SI2.50September 2?. 1979, The PH0FNIX.the daysof Prosreens ofay. Thener andseasonaland the>r is out3 park atkers andd.will be a'enwoodologica!Sydneyjonsored I Center, e at 5th ber 29. A ipporting ation on 7686.Under The