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rose garden, the types and varieties of shrubs, and the herb 
garden. This last was started, planted, and cared for by Miss 
Catherine A. Mullen, a Federal Board student. Every two weeks 
in the summer the children had an informal entertainment in the 
flower garden, different sections of the garden taking turns in 
entertaining the rest of the boys and girls. The Nature Study 
Department from New York University visited our outdoor 
garden to study the methods used. As usual, a good many gifts 
of vegetables and flowers were sent by the boys and girls of the 
garden to different charitable organizations in this borough. At 
the fall meeting of their Club the children presented to the Botanic 
Garden a terra cotta image, in color, for their outdoor garden. 
The support of a French orphan, carried by our boys and girls for 
the last five years, was discontinued this year, due to the fact that 
the boy has become of an age to support himself. 
Arrangements were made during this last year for the con- 
struction of transparencies for the windows in the Boys and Girls 
Club room; and for the painting of floral panels for wall spaces 
previously planned for such a purpose. These pieces of work will 
be completed in 1924. The gift of a beautiful Italian marble 
image presented by Miss Alice L. Morse is another feature of 
beauty for this room. The image represents a little lad saying, 
“Oh, how happy I am!” The photograph of Mr. Alfred T. 
White presented by Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen has been framed 
and hung, and photographs of Fabre and of Mrs. Anna Botsford 
Comstock, former Professor of Nature Study at Cornell, are 
in process of framing. The room gives promise of great beauty. 
It might be of interest to you and to the trustees to know that the 
certificates given by the Garden to a class of boys from P.S. 90 
who came here for regular work during school hours were pre- 
sented to them by Mr. John Winter, Principal of the school, at 
the time of their graduation. This leads me to state that the work 
done here by visiting classes is used more and more as a basis for 
regular classwork by the teachers who come to us. 
Respectfully submitted, 
ELLEN Eppy SHaw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction. 
