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simple, definite, helpful work, grading it so that it applies directly 
to the immediate needs of our own city schools. Practice with 
classes of children of different ages is given in all this work. © 
The requirements for entrance are a certificate from a city 
training or a normal school, a college diploma, or several years of 
certified successful teaching. These courses may be completed 
during one year, or may be extended over a period of two or more 
years. The fee for the entire course is thirty-five dollars, pay- 
able in full at the time of registration, or course by course in ad- 
vance. No money will be refunded if the student drops the 
work, and no monetary allowances will be made for courses taken 
at other institutions, although time allowances will be made. 
Special stress is put upon the outdoor garden practice. This 
practice is of two kinds: (1) Practice with children. There are 
one hundred and fifty children in our outdoor garden, and every 
opportunity is given for practice in working with children and for 
the solving of problems connected with this phase of the work. 
(2) Practice in the teacher’s garden. Each member of the class 
has a garden of her own and works it herself, thus performing 
all gardening operations to be taught later to children. 
To those who satisfactorily complete this course a certificate 
will be given. The five courses offered in children’s gardening 
constitute one unit. Open only to teachers. 
These courses have been accepted by the Board of Education | 
of the City of New York for teachers’ credits as follows : 
1. Any of the courses will be accepted toward meeting clause 
“b” of the conditions of eligibility for high-school license in 
biology. 
2. The course in Pedagogy of Botany and Educational Prin- 
ciples of Children’s Gardening (B4) will be accepted as a satis- 
factory 30-hour course in Pedagogy toward meeting the require- 
ment of 60 hours’ work in Pedagogy in lieu of the written test in 
Principles and Methods of Teaching for Promotion License. 
. This course will be accepted as a pedagogical course, and 
either of the other four courses will be accepted as an academic 
course toward meeting the conditions of exemption from the aca- 
demic paper in the examination for license as assistant to prin- 
