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The number of children supplied exceeded 91,400, indicating a 
small number of packets supplied to some; but a small number of 
packets per capita supplied to a large number of young gardeners 
is better, educationally, ‘than a larger number per capita to fewer 
children. Many of these children have no possible place to raise 
plants except in boxes on window sills and fire escapes. The 
object of this distribution of seeds is to arouse and stimulate in 
young people a love of gardening by giving them a taste of the 
pleasure and satisfaction of raising plants from seed—to give 
them an added interest in life. 
The Annual Children’s Garden Exhibit is a fitting climax to 
the year’s gardening. The Tenth Annual Exhibit of garden prod- 
ucts was held as usual in the rotunda of the Laboratory Building 
on September 28 and 29. The vegetables and flowers raised by 
the children surpassed in quality those of any preceding exhibit, 
thus reflecting, in part, the Botanic Garden’s ten years of endeavor 
along this line. Over $240 worth of books, medals, cups, and 
other prizes were distributed on October 13 to the boys and girls 
who, as evidenced by their exhibits, had raised crops of vegetables 
or flowers of superior merit. In addition to these prizes the 
Alfred T. White Scholarship of $100 was awarded for the fourth 
year. As previously reported, this prize is awarded annually to 
a boy or girl who has taken courses (outside of school hours) for 
not less than three years at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, with 
high grades, who is certified by his high school as standing high 
in scholarship there, and who expects to enter college with the 
intention of ultimately engaging in some line of botanical or horti- 
cultural work. 
Conservation of Native Plants 
During 1923 there has been continued the preparation and dis- 
tribution of special literature relating to the protection of native 
plants, some of which have been gradually disappearing. A total 
of nearly three thousand copies of the article Game laws for ferns 
and wild flowers, by Dr. R. C. Benedict, resident investigator, has 
been finally distributed through the cooperative arrangement be- 
tween the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the American Fern 
Society, together with numerous copies of other articles. The 
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