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lections of living plants large additions to the herbarium are 
needed, especially from the tropics and the south temperate zone. 
Other scientific needs of the Garden demand additional herba- 
rium collections. 
6. Medals for the Children’s Work.—Properly handled, the 
award of medals and buttons may be made a healthy stimulus 
to nature study and more advanced botanical work by young 
people. Such has been the case at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
where the amount of plant study undertaken voluntarily by boys 
and girls of 12-18 years of age, outside of school hours, and in 
addition to school requirements, has been truly surprising and 
peculiarly gratifying. So far, for the purchase of buttons and 
medals, the Garden has been totally dependent on income from 
the sale of penny packets of seeds, and on very limited receipts 
for tuition, 
To one interested in the education of children along the line 
of nature study nothing could give more satisfaction than to 
stimulate such work by a gift of inexpensive tokens for work 
well done. The cost of these bronze and silver medals and 
exhibitors’ celluloid buttons is about $150 a year. Full informa- 
tion may be had by addressing either the director of the Garden, 
or the curator of elementary instruction, Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw. 
7. Trophy and Cups. 
(a) First Trophy—aAt the annual Children’s Garden Exhibit. 
held in September, a trophy is awarded to the school, public or 
private, that has the best exhibit of garden products (flowers 
and vegetables) raised by its pupils. The trophy becomes the 
permanent property of the school that wins it three times. A 
new trophy must be provided for the 1917 exhibit. The first 
trophy, a bronze statuette of Victory, was won for the third time 
at the 1916 exhibit, by Public School 152, Brooklyn, and has 
therefore been presented to that school. The cost of a suitable 
trophy will be about $50. 
(b) Second Trophy.—Many schools, notably those in the more 
congested parts of the city, will never be able to compete for 
the trophy offered for garden products. In order to stimulate 
the raising of plants, even under difficulties, and to encourage 
schools unfavorably located, the Botanic Garden hopes to be 
