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Club at Dobb’s Ferry, and a model garden was laid out under our 
supervision on Staten Island. Ten public schools asked for con- 

sultations on war gardens. Two canning d trations were. 

given at the Garden. All the above work was in addition to our 
regular instruction, in response to special requests, because of 
war conditions. 
The attendance of children in our regular classes was overt 
26,000 for the year; a larger attendance than we have ever had 
before. 120,755 penny packets of seed were put up and sold, an 
appreciable increase over 25,000 packets put up in 1914, our first 
year of this work. During the spring and fall, 153 classes came 
from our public schools to receive special work at the Garden. 
The number of children attending these classes was 12,024. 
Owing to the fact that our schedule was already full, we were 
unable to care for over 2,000 school children who applied for lec- 
tures during the month of October. 
The summer school for the training of women in garden work 
is an outgrowth from our regular teachers’ course extending 
throughout the year. [rom these two courses, twenty-two young 
women received certificates this last December. A part of their 
training is practice in outdoor garden work with children. This 
might properly be entirely covered in our own children’s gardens; 
but we believe that a wider experience comes from working in 
outside gardens as well, so this year three school gardens were 
carried on under the supervision of our students, at Public 
Schools Nos. 89, 22, and 24. One hundred and fifty home 
gardens were also visited by the women of the training class. 
Our own garden work was heavier this year than ever before. 
In each of the 390 plots which were cultivated, we made a special 
point of raising such crops as would be of the greatest help in the 
general shortage of food, and at the same time give the students 
practice in the growing of these crops. On two successive days 
when careful records were kept, $173.52 worth of vegetables were 
taken out of the 290 children’s plots, each eight by ten feet. This 
was not an unusual amount. Another feature in our gardening 
this summer was the opportunity given to twenty-two high-school 
boys each to cultivate plots twenty by forty feet. These boys 
