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The second annual children’s garden exhibit of the Garden was 
held in the laboratory building and plant houses on September 
24-25. Nearly two thousand children, of 15 years of age or 
younger, exhibited flowers and vegetables raised by them in their 
school or home gardens during the past season. This is about 
four times as many as exhibited at the first exhibit, held last 
year. The committee of awards consisted of Mr. John Lewis 
Childs (chairman), Miss Hilda Loins, and Mr. Montague Free. 
Twenty-two schools competed for the trophy awarded annually 
to the school making the best exhibit. The trophy, a bronze 
statue of Victory, was won for the second time by P. S. 152. 
Second prizes were awarded to P. S. 43, and P. S. 98, and 
honorable mention to public schools 129, 92, 89, 153, 115, and 26. 
The attendance at the exhibit was 2287. 
At the exhibition and exercises, marking the close of the first 
season of the school gardens of New Rochelle, on Friday, Septem- 
ber 17, 1915, the principal address was given by Miss Shaw, of 
the Botanic Garden Staff. The New Rochelle gardens were or- 
ganized and conducted for their first season by Miss Alice I. 
Sabens, a graduate of the Botanic Garden course for the prepara- 
tion of teachers of children’s gardens. 
During the week, September 6 to 11, 1915, exercises were held 
in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the establishment 
of the New York Botanical Garden. Registration, addresses of 
welcome, and a dinner occupied the first day. Sessions for the 
reading of papers were held in the morning and afternoon of 
Tuesday and Thursday, field trips were taken on Wednesday to 
Great Kills, Staten Island (salt water day), and on Friday to the 
pine barrens of New Jersey. On Saturday, the eleventh, the 
guests, to the number of 50, visited the Brooklyn Garden and 
Long Island. The forenoon was occupied with an inspection of 
the buildings and grounds. Luncheon were served in the labora- 
tory building at noon, and the afternoon was devoted to a trip to 
the cedar swamp (Chamaecyparis thyoides), near Merrick, L. I. 
The large number of papers offered for the scientific programs, 
