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A NEW TROPHY NEEDED 
In connection with the Botanic Garden’s annual children’s 
horticultural exhibit, held each September, it has been the custom 
to award a trophy to the school whose exhibit wins first prize. 
This trophy may be retained by the school for only one year. 
until it has been won for the third time: it then becomes the 
permanent property of the school. Our first trophy, a bronze 
statute of Victory (illustrated in the Botanic Garden Recorp for 
October, 1914, p. 106, and April, 1916, p. 62), was won for the 
third time at the 1916 exhibit, by Public school, No: 1527-4 
thus becomes the permanent possession of that school, and a new 
trophy must be provided, 
An excellent opportunity is hereby afforded for any individual 
or organization to provide the second trophy. The first one was 
valued at about $50. The children’s horticultural exhibit, with 
attendant awards, has been a means of greatly increasing the 
interest of schools and school children in the study of plant life 
and gardening, and the exhibits have improved in quality as well 
as in size each successive year. 
The director of the Garden will be glad to give further in- 
formation on the subject to anyone interested, 
C5. & 
NOTES 
The Garden, in its various departments, has been unusually 
crowded with work during April and May in connection with the 
campaign to secure the planting of vacant lot gardens in Brooklyn, 
as a part of the preparedness work incident to the war. A full 
account of this work by the Garden will be given in a subsequent 
number of the Recorp. . 
It is gratifying to note that the plans for the grounds of Ohio 
State University, Columbus, provide for a small botanic garden. 
On May 8 the Neighborhood Association Settlement Workers, 
Brooklyn, visited the Garden under the guidance of Dr. 
Gundersen, 
