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The number of plants distributed to schools has dropped some- 
what because of a price being placed upon these collections. 
Also the amount of nature material distributed has been slightly 
reduced because considerable material has been given out through 
the American Nature Study Society at the Nature-Garden Office 
of the Board of Education. 
Through all our avenues of work with the elementary schools 
in this Borough we have come in contact this year with 987% of 
the schools, a record number. 
A few less than 2,000 people have been instructed in our green- 
houses, not just entering for demonstrations. 
A comprehensive view of the work of this Department might be 
taken in the high spots of the twelve months of the year. 
In the month of January all the machinery is set in motion to 
publicize the seed work. During the year 490 elementary schools, 
49 high schools, 1 college, 17 private and parochial schools of the 
city, and 39 other institutions sent in their orders. Three lots 
of bulk sced were sent to England and Finland in addition to 
1,022 packets being given away here. 
In January some of the members of the Department have 
ene previous year’s vacations. 
All of the printing and work connected with classwork for the 
spring is attended to this month. 
Groups of Girl Scouts came on Saturday mornings for instruc- 
tion in garden work. 
In the month of February a group of older children returned 
to the Garden to work on the plan for the annual flower border. 
The plan was not only worked out by them under supervision, 
but later the seedlings were started in the greenhouses and most 
of the pricking was done by them. During this time Miss 
Hammond taught a group of students in Camp Nature Coun- 
selor Work, also on Saturday mornings. 
One WPA teacher, Mr. Victor Berwisht, was trained by our 
Department to give general help in our classes and to serve as 
docent. 
At this time teachers’ classes for the new term register. The 
class in Elements of Horticulture, spoken of in the Prospectus 
as B3, was so large in 1941 that two sections had to be formed 
for the spring term. 
