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3. Home Gardening.—Assistance will be given to children in 
planning and planting home gardens. Enrollment cards for such 
assistance may be had on application to the Curator of Elementary 
Instruction. Prizes will be offered to both schools and indi- 
viduals, at the annual Children’s Garden Exhibit, for the best 
results in home gardening. This exhibit is open to all children in 
the City of Brooklyn, although their garden products may have 
been raised at their summer homes. Certifications must be made 
that the work has been done by the child himself. 
The exhibit for 1917 will be held on the 14th and 15th of 
September. All exhibits, of schools as well as of individuals, 
must be brought to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the afternoon 
of September the 13th, or by to o’clock on the morning of the 
14th. The exhibit will be judged on the afternoon of the 14th, 
and will then be on exhibition for the public from three to five 
o’clock on the afternoon of the 14th, and from ten in the morning 
until four in the afternoon of the 15th. The announcement of 
prizes will be made on the 15th. After four o’clock of this day, 
exhibitors may remove their exhibits. Prizes will be distributed 
on Saturday afternoon, September 29, at three o’clock. 
Silver and bronze medals will be awarded as first and second 
prizes for individual exhibits. A trophy is the first prize for the 
school making the best exhibit as a whole. This prize is to be 
competed for annually until one school wins it three times, when 
it will become the property of that school. A new prize will then 
be offered. P.S. 152 won last year, for the third time, the statue 
of Victory, our first trophy. The second prize is a silver cup, 
which is retained by the winning school. 
4. Penny Packets of Seeds.—In order to assist the above work, 
penny packets of seeds are put up by the Botanic Garden, for 
children’s use. In the early spring, lists of these seeds, conditions 
for entry as an exhibitor, home gardening record cards, and other 
information may be had on application to the Curator of Ele- 
mentary Instruction. 
5. Conferences.—Conferences may be arranged by teachers and 
principals for the discussion of problems in connection with gar- 
