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22 classes a month for the ten months of the school year. 
Children’s home gardens, to the number of 312, were visited and 
supervised. 
Requests from high schools for study and loan material, in- 
cluding Petrie dishes with sterilized nutrient media, were about 
double the number of those received in 1914. 
Attendance.—The total attendance of visiting classes from local 
schools was over 6,600, while the attendance at our own classes, 
in regular courses of instruction, was over 9,100. 
Course for Teachers—The course for the preparation of 
teachers of children’s gardens was enriched by the addition of 
new sub-courses, and the registration, totaling 4o for the year, 
was nearly six times as large as in 1914, but only four persons 
completed the course in time to receive certificates on De- 
cember II. 
Annual Children’s Garden Exhibit—A full report of the second 
annual children’s garden exhibit may be found in the Garden 
Recorp for October, 1915. About four times as many children 
exhibited as at the first exhibit, the number reaching nearly 
2,000. 
Penny Packets of Seeds ——Over 85,600 penny packets of seeds 
were distributed to school children during April. This is an in- 
crease of more than 60,000 over the number distributed in 1914, 
when the work was initiated. 
Organization of Graduates—The organization, by our gradu- 
ates, of the Garden Teachers’ Association of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden has already been mentioned as a news item in the REcorp. 
This is an evidence, not only of appreciation of our work, but of 
enthusiastic loyalty to the Garden. Such an organization may, 
in time, become a very potent influence in the affairs of any 
educational institution. 
Success of Our Graduates in Civil Service.—It speaks well for 
the high character and thoroughness of our course for the 
preparation of teachers of children’s gardens (as well as for the 
individual herself) that one of the graduates of our first class, 
Miss Maude Snedecker, stood first in the civil service examina- 
tion on August 5, for school-farm attendant in Greater New 
York, receiving 96 credits out of a possible 100. Another of our 
