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11. The classroom window box. (Demonstration.) 
. Coffee culture in South America. (Lantern slides.) 
13. How rubber is obtained. (Lantern slides. 
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14. Plants for classrooms and care of same. (Demonstration.) 
15. Agricultural products of the United States. (Lantern slides.) 
16, What plants mean to the world’s commerce. (Lantern slides.) 
17. The life story of a tree. (Demonstration and slides.) 
Over 6,000 children came to these talks in 1915. They came 
in classes with their teachers during school hours. Usually this 
represents to them their spring or fall excursion: they came first 
to the Garden for their lesson; went through the greenhouse to 
see the economic plants familiar to them in the pages of their 
geographies, but not known face to face as living, real plants, and 
finally took a short trip through the Japanese Garden, returning 
thence to school or to Prospect Park for a little play, a lovely 
ending for the one precious day set apart for excursioning, 
As before, our cooperation with the public schools did not end 
with the talks at the Garden, but whenever the call came, espe- 
cially in the spring time, for talks at public schools, we went. 
These talks were on the general subject of garden making. The 
request came because principals felt that the children should hear 
a few simple directions on how to start their home gardens. In 
most cases the demand arose from our supplying schools with 
penny packets of seeds. In 1914, 25,000 penny packets were 
sold to the children of Brooklyn; in 1915, over 85,600 were sold. 
The seeds used in these packets are tested, and are of the best’ 
and most expensive varieties. Too often seeds sold to children 
are of inferior quality. The outcome from this work means 
eventually more and better gardens in Brooklyn. The round-up 
of this work is our annual exhibit held every September at the 
Garden. The trophy, a bronze statue of Victory, was for a 
second time won by P. S. 152. But this year public schools 98 
and 43, dark horses in the race, gave 152 a hard fight for her 
place. 
The way the children brought the products from their own 
gardens to the place of exhibit, is interesting. Public School 152 
