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lay out the grounds temporarily and leave the final plans until our 
grounds were in permanent shape. And so the arrangement of 
garden plots was planned primarily to accommodate the greatest 
number of children rather than for the best educational results. 
Courses for Teachers of Children’s Gardening 
It might be well here to consider our work in the instruction 
of garden teachers. On July 5, 1916, the first regular summer 
session in this work was started. There were ten students in the 
course. In order that these students should have the best pos- 
sible practice it was necessary to lay out a piece of ground for 
children’s gardens. Our garden plots for children had been laid 
out in May, and no space was available in the children’s garden 
proper without digging up a sufficient number of these plots to 
accommodate the pupil teachers. To avoid this a small piece of 
unplanted ground near the children’s gardens was loaned us for 
the season and a new garden was laid out. A new set of chil- 
dren came to us, and the teachers had their own gardens also on . 
this area. The session closed August 15. Four students re- 
mained voluntarily to work until September first. This summer 
session is to be repeated in the summer of 1917. 
On Saturday afternoon, December 9, 1916, certificates in Chil- 
dren’s Gardening were conferred on a class of thirteen women: 
who had completed the course for the preparation of teachers of 
children’s gardening. An address on “The Larger Setting of 
Nature Study” was given by Dr. Thomas Balliet, Dean of the 
School of Pedagogy of New York University. After the con- 
ferring of certificates, the class of 1915, represented by Miss 
Maud E. Snedeker, presented the Garden with a beautiful bird 
bath for the children’s gardens. The gift was accepted by Mr. 
Alfred T. White, chairman of the Botanic Garden Governing 
Committee of the board of trustees. At the close of the formal 
exercises tea was served by the Garden Teachers’ Association of 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Cooperation with Schools 
School lecture courses were planned, one for the spring of 1916, 
and one for the following fall. The subject matter correlates 
