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the year with a total registration of 510, and a total attendance of 
7,214, twelve of the courses being taught by Miss Shaw. Fol- 
lowing are the courses given in I9QT4: 
No. 1. Garden practice. No. 14. Plant propagation and green- 
No. 2. Nature study. house 
No. 3. Back yard gardens. No. 15. Fungous and eect pests. 
No. 4. Kitchen gardening. No. 16. Children’s garden practice. 
No. 5. The small flower garden. No. 17. Fall garden work. 
No. 6. Indoor plant culture. No. 18. Pedagogy of botany. 
No. 7. Landscape design. No. 19. Practical garden work. 
No. 9. The garden week by week. No.25. Seminar (on heredity and 
No. 11. Elementary botany. plant breeding). 
No. 12. Nature study. No. 26. Journal Club. 
No. 13 
. Soils and agricultural prin- 
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A detailed summary of the work in children’s gardening is 
given in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden REcorp 3: 101-112. Oc- 
tober, 1914. To the account there recorded may be added an 
appreciation of the interest of Miss Sophie Pfuhl, a student 
of the summer school of Teachers College, Columbia University, 
who spent three weeks at the Garden studying methods of such 
work with children. Her interest in ofe instance won the en- 
thusiastic approval of a class of older boys whom she took on 
a trip to the museum of the New York Botanical Garden, in 
the Bronx, to study especially the economic plants and their prod- 
ucts, Miss Pfuhl kindly defraying all expenses of fares and re- 
freshments. 
Nine of the courses mentioned above (Nos. 11-19) are embraced 
in a Course for teachers of school gardening, a subject which is 
fast growing in public interest. Ten teachers registered for this 
work, of which number seven completed the year’s requirement 
and received Certificates in Children’s Gardening at the exercises 
held November 21, 1914. 
In connection with the more advanced and research courses, ten- 
tatively offered for the first time in 1914, several suggestions might 
be here recorded. Notwithstanding the crowded condition of our 
present temporary quarters, a number of teachers and others 
availed themselves of the opportunity to use the laboratory and 
greenhouse equipment for the purpose of carrying on advanced 
