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“Winners in the Achievement Club projects in tomatoes, potatoes, corn 
and poultry will be awarded the standard bronze, silver and gold buttons 
used in the National Girls’ and BOE Clubs of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture.” 
School gardens, as stated in the invitation, were organized in 
1904, and at present employ 14 trained school garden teachers 
and assistants, 15 home garden teachers, 7 gardeners (laborers), 
and one supervisor. The season extends from April 1 to No- 
vember 1, and the average size of the larger gardens is one third 
of an acre, with individual plots for each pupil of 8 X Io feet. 
These gardens are all situated in or near the school yard. 
Individual plot holders come from the fifth grade, with at-’ 
tendance three times a week, at 3 o’clock. Twenty mentally de- 
ficient, disciplinary, and open-air classes have garden facilities, 
in addition to the work with regular classes. Twenty-four 
schools in the city have ornamental gardens, cared for by the 
pupils during school time, and kindergarten classes have garden 
opportunities in 32 schools. 
The fifteen home garden teachers have supervised home 
gardens of 13,000 children during 1915, the visits averaging three 
per child per season. This work now reaches about one tenth 
of the public school children of Philadelphia, and uals aim is: 
“Gardening for every child in every school and home. 
C. SG. 
NOTES 
By the will of Col. Robert B. Woodward, who died on Sep- 
tember 2, 1915, the Garden received a bequest of $25,000 to be 
added to the endowment fund, the income to be used, without 
restriction, as the trustees may from time to time designate. 
The plans and specifications for the completion of the labora- 
tory building and plant houses of the Garden were approved 
by the Department of Parks during the first week in September, 
and were forwarded to the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment, for its approval, on September 3. The estimated total cost 
of the work is $177,500. It is hoped that the foundations may 
be completed before hard freezing begins this fall. 
