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A small group of girls is meeting weekly for silver button 
work. These girls are working on the life history of garden 
plants, and each girl is writing a book which takes up, chapter 
by chapter, the life story of a plant. This work is continuing 
into the outdoor summer garden where the soil, the planting of 
seeds, and plant friends and foes will enter into the study. 
The chief officers of the Girls’ Club were chosen this year by 
the councillors, and represent pupils from public schools 9, 152, 
148, 36, and 98. The other officers were chosen by the club 
members. 
Experiment with Holland Bulbs -—On May 15, Mr. Peter Bis- 
set, acting agricultural explorer in charge, division of Foreign 
Seed and Plant Introduction, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, called at the Garden to inspect 
the results of a cooperative experiment with tulips and narcissus, 
initiated last year between the Garden and the Department of 
Agriculture. About 3,000 bulbs of different varieties of early 
and late May flowering and of Darwin tulips, grown at Belling- 
ham, state of Washington, were planted in one half of each of 
36 beds, and the same number of bulbs of the same variety in 
the other half of the bed, in order that the plants might develop 
under as nearly identical conditions as possible. The tulips pre- 
sented a beautiful sight when in flower throughout practically the 
entire month of May. A full report on the results will be re- 
served until the termination of the tests, which may be repeated 
in IQI6-17. 
Penny Packets of Seeds——The Department of Public Instruc- 
tion of the Botanic Garden has distributed approximately I1I,000 
penny packets of seeds to children this spring. This is an in- 
crease of about 25,000 over the number distributed last year, and 
an increase of over 86,000 over the number distributed two years 
ago when this distribution was inaugurated. 
On Saturday, May 13, the Art Alumni Association of Pratt 
Institute met in the Japanese garden for the purpose of sketching. 
About twenty were present. 
The construction of the rock garden, anticipation of which was 
mentioned in the annual report of the Garden for 1915, was be- 
