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May 6. How to make Brooklyn more beautiful. 
May 13. Rubber, a very useful plant. 
May 20. Sugar, and how it is obtained. 
May 27. The wild flowers now in bloom. 
It is necessary to limit the number of tickets for these talks to 
children. This is due tothe small size of the present lecture room. 
Not more than 70 children can be accommodated at any one talk. 
Tickets will be issued in the order of application until the number 
is exhausted. 
The talks will be repeated for school classes, if so desired, 
either at the Garden or at the school. 
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B I. Courses ror TEACHERS OF CHILDREN’S GARDENING 
There is an increasing demand for persons adequately prepared 
to become teachers or supervisors of children’s gardens, but op- 
portunities to secure the necessary preparation are not numerous. 
As in other cases where special problems are to be met and solved, 
an interest in children, a mere liking for the work, or even native 
teaching ability, while highly essential, are not, of themselves, 
sufficient to insure success. 
The following ten courses are planned to acquaint the prospec- 
tive teacher with some of the main problems to be met with in this 
work, and such effective solutions of them as have been worked 
out in practice. The ten courses are considered as a unit, and are 
not offered separately. Whenever possible it is urged that the 
entire course be completed within two school years. Special im- 
portance is attached to No. Bro. 
The fee for the entire course is Fifteen Dollars. Even though 
credit be given for work done elsewhere, the minimum charge for 
a certificate will in any case be Ten Dollars. 
To those who satisfactorily complete the work a Certificate in 
Children’s Gardening will be granted. 
Bx. Soils and Agricultural Principles—A study of soils; fer- 
tilizers, natural and chemical; relation of water and air to soil; 
liming; mixing of soils and tillage. Five lectures with laboratory 
work, Tuesday afternoons, from 4-5, January 18—February 15. 
Miss Shaw. 
