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ENDOWMENT OF SCHOLARSHIP AND PRIZES 
In September, 1914, the Garden inaugurated its first annual 
Children’s Garden Exhibit, as announced in the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden Leaflet of June 3, 1914. The cost of the trophies, cups, 
medals, and other prizes awarded at these exhibits has been met 
from income derived from tuition and sales. This source of 
revenue has been uncertain, and, in consideration of other de- 
mands made upon it, inadequate. It is therefore a pleasure and 
satisfaction to announce that the chairman of the Botanic Garden 
Governing Committee, Mr. Alfred T. White, has made provision 
for these prizes for 1918 and annually thereafter. 
The most important of these prizes is a scholarship of the value 
of $100 to be awarded to the boy or girl who has taken class | 
work at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for not less than three 
years, and who has shown marked ability along botanical and 
agricultural lines, both at the Garden and in his high-school 
courses, as attested by his principal and teachers. This will be 
known as the Alfred T. White Scholarship, and will be awarded 
for the first time in 1920. Further information may be obtained 
by addressing the director of the Garden. 
Details as to this and some of the other prizes are published in 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Leaflet of June 20, 1918. Special 
mention, however, should here be made of the offer of two first 
and two second prizes (one for boys and the other for girls) of 
War Savings Stamps to the value of $15 and $10 respectively for 
excellence in back-yard gardens ; and of two other prizes (one for 
boys and one for girls) of $10 each, in War Savings Stamps, for 
making the best use of a plot of ground in the children’s gardens 
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
In addition to the above, twenty prizes of ten Thrift Stamps 
each (ten to boys and ten to girls) will be awarded to those who 
are most generally helpful in connection with the children’s gar- 
den at the Botanic Garden. Promptness, regularity of attendance, 
effort, accomplishment, and other points will form the basis of 
this award. The War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps will 
be awarded only for the period of the present war. 
