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of public instruction, recording the increasing use of the Garden’s 
equipment by the biology classes of the city high schools. 
First Annual High School Day—On May 23 the New York 
Association of Biology Teachers and their friends met at the Gar- 
den, by invitation, for the first annual high school day of the 
Garden. The first hour was occupied by a conference in the labo- 
ratory building on the general subject of how the Garden can be- 
come most useful to the high schools in connection with their 
botanical instruction. This was followed by an inspection of the 
buildings and grounds. A full report of the meeting appeared 
in the Recorp for July, 1914. 
First Annual Children’s Garden Exhibit—On September 24-26 
was held the first annual Children’s Garden Exhibit. There were 
27 classes of exhibits, all confined to vegetables and flowers raised 
by children. In many cases the plants were raised from seeds sup- 
plied by the Garden in penny packets last spring, but exhibits were 
not restricted to these. Twenty-seven silver medals were awarded 
as first prizes, thirty bronze medals as second prizes, and forty- 
six certificates of honorable mention. 
For the best exhibit from any one school a bronze statuette of 
Victory (modern) was awarded as a trophy to P.S. 152. This 
trophy is to become the property of the school that wins it three 
times. A second prize consisting of a Norfolk Pine (Araucaria 
excelsa) was awarded to P.S. 129, and certificates of honorable 
mention to Public Schools 54, 66 and 153. 
Considering that this was the first exhibit held by the Garden, 
the results were more satisfactory than had really been anticipated, 
and there is every indication of even greater success next year. 
Conferring of Certificates—The satisfactory completion of reg- 
ular courses of instruction at the Garden is recognized by the con- 
ferring of a certificate. During September seventy certificates were 
conferred on as many children for the completion of Course TI, 
Outdoor Garden Work. The award of this certificate means reg- 
ular attendance, twice a week, for four and five months, and a 
satisfactory performance of assigned work. Children were re- 
quired to bring written excuses when absent, and often parents 
would take the pains to call in person and explain the absence of 
