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Courses of Instruction 
Of the twenty-nine courses of instruction offered in 1915, 
twenty-one were given during the year, with a total registration 
of 1,023, and a total attendance of over 9,100. 
During the spring the work of elementary instruction, espe- 
cially in connection with children’s gardens, assumed such pro- 
portions that additional assistance became imperative. The 
services of Miss Jean A. Cross, of the Teachers’ Training School, 
at Yonkers, were engaged for Saturdays from April to June, in- 
clusive, and on July 1, Miss Cross joined the Garden staff as in- 
structor. In December the title of her position was changed to 
that of assistant curator of elementary instruction to begin with 
January 1, 1916. 
iss Cross is a member of the class of 1909, of Wellesley 
College; taught in a private school in Arlington, Mass., from 
1909 to 1910; was field assistant in the Fairview Garden School, 
Yonkers, N. Y., from 1910-1911; and was garden director for 
the Boston Social Union for 1911 and 1912; teacher of nature 
study at Yonkers Training School for Teachers 1912-13; trav- 
elled and studied in Europe 1913-14; teacher of nature study 
again at Yonkers Training School from 1914-15 
A summary of the work in children’s gardening, written by 
Miss Shaw, is incorporated in this report. 
One phase of this teaching which is not there described is that 
with Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, and similar organizations. 
Instruction was begun in October in various phases of nature 
study, forestry, gardening, and agriculture, of such a nature as 
to be especially adapted to the needs of Boy Scouts and Camp 
Fire Girls. Although the offer of instruction was not extended 
to these organizations till late in the fall, there were altogether 
83 who took advantage of it. Both the Garden and the adjacent 
Prospect Park present splendid opportunities for the study of 
trees and other outdoor nature study subjects. When the su- 
perior advantages offered by the Garden in these lines becomes 
somewhat better known, there is no doubt but that our facilities 
for such teaching will be taxed to the utmost. In order to have 
the greatest measure of success, stich teaching must be done by 
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