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the request of Miss Truman, Girl Scout Director of the Borough, 
and was conducted by the officers of our own Boys and Girls 
Club. The object was to acquaint the Girl Scouts with the op- 
portunities presented here at the Garden for their work. A 
number of Girl Scouts joined our outdoor garden as a direct out- 
growth of this meeting. The Mineola Home for Cardiac Children 
asked us again to assist them with their outdoor garden. During 
the spring Miss Sanders went every two weeks to Bellevue Hos- 
pital and gave special nature study lessons to their crippled 
children. The Montessori Kindergarten Training School of 
Manhattan requested a course of lessons for their junior and 
senior students. These were given during February, March, and 
April. At the same time a similar course was given to the juniors 
and seniors of Froebel League, another Manhattan kindergarten 
training school. During the fall, the Midwood School, a new 
private school in our borough, has come every second Friday for 
special work. The roof garden at P.S. 21, Manhattan, was made 
possible through our help. This little garden was a feature of the 
work done by the children of the ungraded classes in that school. 
I may state here that among the educational demands made upon 
the time of the curator was the writing of a chapter in a book 
planned for children and teachers, by name, the “ Home Educator,’ 
published by the Foundation Desk Company, Inc., of Chicago; 
and also a series of seven plant stories for children requested by 
Professor M. V. O’Shea, of the University of Wisconsin. These 
stories appeared in the Junior Home Magazine. 
During the year 1923, the curator has given 293 talks and lec- 
tures. This includes both outside lectures and those given at the 
Botanic Garden to visiting classes. 
I should like to bring to your attention certain gifts to the De- 
partment which show in themselves unusual interest, such as the 
one given by the Little Men and Women of ’76—a gift of $35 
for books for our children’s room; also the gift of Mrs. Glent- 
worth Butler of a prize cup to be competed for by the girls of 
our 1923 outdoor garden. I mention this gift because of the 
stimulus it gave to the girls of the garden. Milton Hudders, 
the first secretary of the Boys and Girls Club, presented a set 
of John Burroughs’ books for the children’s room. This is 
