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drops appreciably as the summer goes on, and midsummer 
registration was 149, accounted for by the number of children 
going to camps and summer homes. Most of the children, 
except new-comers, made their own garden plans, a larger per- 
centage doing this than ever before. As usual, our tomatoes 
became the bumper crop, for more than a ton of fruit was raised. 
Corn was again tried in the garden. It is always a favorite crop, 
but prone to have borers. Our picking garden, the project of 
the high school group, was a mass of continuous bloom. The 
children were taught proper flower arrangements, good color 
combinations, and had the satisfaction of enjoying the results of 
their labors, for over 150 flats of seedlings were raised by them for 
the flower beds. During the summer a series of talks on botany 
was given in the garden to prepare the children for their honors. 
So went the summer. During the fall of the year an intensive 
round of teachers’ and children’s classes goes on just as in the 
spring. Each year this Department offers some short. free 
course for the teachers of the Borough. Last year such a course 
was given in the fall, two lessons in classroom Nature Study, 
with material supplied. Over 100 teachers attended and 
received material for their classwork. 
There are one or two points of interest that stand out in this 
year and which might be held in mind. First, no mention has 
been made of a project carried on by our children for the past 
two years. There is a small village in England called North- 
bourne, about three miles outside of Deal, in County Kent. 
Here about a hundred children between the ages of five and 
fifteen have become the friends of the children of the Saturday 
morning classes here at the Garden. In 1940, £15 were sent 
there for a Christmas treat for those children; this year £20 
and also two large boxes of clothes were given. It seemed to us, 
the Department and the children, that the nicest thing we could 
do for our young English friends was to give them a good time. 
We shall hope to continue this throughout the war just as we 
helped support a French orphan during the last war. 
The Town Hall Leadership School held one meeting at the 
Botanic Garden to observe our educational methods of work 
with children. A number of universities from the Midwest 
