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typical of the interest the old boys and girls show for the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden. Two other boys sent their checks for a similar 
purpose, Fred Werner for $25, and Philip Corby for $ro. 
The Saturday morning classes for boys and girls have been more 
largely attended and we have had more requests for admission 
than during any one other year. On December 22, our first 
children’s Christmas party was held in the boys’ and girls’ own 
room. It has been impossible before to have a room suitable in 
which to hold such a gathering. Christmas stories were told by 
Mrs. Orland E. White, and plants were distributed to the children. 
I should like here to refer to another point of contact made this 
year with the local high schools of the borough brought about 
through the need of a bookplate for the children’s library. The 
contest for this design was open to the art departments of the 
Brooklyn high schools. This created a great deal of interest 
among the schools and the bookplate designs submitted showed 
not only interest in the theme, but value in themselves. An 
adequate notice of this contest appeared in the Botanic Garden 
ReEcorp of January, 1924, Volume XIII, No. 1, page 22. 
The work with visiting classes has been enriched with two more 
syllabi—one on “Bulbs” and the other on “Little Gardens.” 
We have added to our motion picture equipment two reels—one 
n “Cotton” and one on “Cocoa.” The attendance of visiting 
classes has increased over that of last year. During 1923 almost 
twice as many plants were distributed to schools and teachers as 
were given out during 1922. The work in the distribution of 
seed has peas nearly one-third this year over the total dis- 
tribution for 1922 
Hshe enter work in the children’s outdoor garden has not 
remained static. A number of new and interesting outgrowths 
of that work appeared during the summer of 1923. A good deal 
of time was given to a private motion picture corporation in work- 
ing with them to make a moving picture of our work for educa- 
tional purposes. A Garden paper called Agricola was started by 
the boys and girls and has been written, edited, and published 
by them every two weeks since its inauguration in early July. 
More work than ever before was done in connection with special 
features in the outdoor garden, such as the flower garden, the 
