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The students who are taking the regular year’s course for 
garden teachers this year have not only maintained their practice 
gardens here on our grounds, having supervision over 350 plots, 
but have also taken over the summer care of gardens at three 
public schools in Brooklyn. Two young women have been twice 
a week all summer to the garden connected with Public School 
No. 82; two others to Public School No. 24; and still two others 
have taken charge of a small garden at Public School No. 22. 
Every Friday afternoon the students have spent their time in 
home garden visiting. We have under our charge about 200 
home gardens this year. These gardens are visited three times 
throughout the season by the students, the first time in company 
with the assistant curator of elementary instruction, Miss Cross. 
Twenty-two students were registered in our summer course 
for garden teachers. These students represent, for the most part, 
teachers in the elementary schools of Brooklyn. One of the 
students, sent by Bryn Mawr College, is to be the future nature 
study teacher in the out-door model school connected with that 
College. 
During one week in July, there was taken from the main 
children’s gardens, which include 264 plots each 6 & 8 feet, $190 
worth of crops. This is an average of what would be taken 
out of these gardens weekly for several weeks during the summer. 
It was announced in the spring that the Bulletin of Miscella- 
neous Information (Kew), popularly known as the “Kew Bul- 
letin,’ would suspend publication for the alleged reason of short- 
age of paper. Commenting on this the English weekly, Nature, 
said: “ When we see the waste of paper used in Parliamentary 
Reports, National Service propaganda, and by government de- 
partments generally, and place this by the side of the amount 
required for the continued publication of such a periodical as the 
Kew Bulletin—imperial in its scope and influence—we begin to 
despair that our state officials will ever possess true standards of 
value in matters pertaining to science.” It is a pleasure to note 
that the action originally contemplated has been reconsidered and 
