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Children's Garden Exhibit. — The Tenth Annual Children's Gar- 

 den Exhibit was held in the rotunda of the Laboratory Building 

 on Friday and Saturday, September 28 and 29, 1923. The vege- 

 tables and flowers exhibited by both individual boys and girls and 

 by schools were, on the whole, superior to those exhibited in pre- 

 vious years. The judges were Mr. Montague Free, Mr. Van Evrie 

 Kilpatrick, and Dr. Arthur H. Graves. 



The prizes awarded were presented on Saturday afternoon, Oc- 

 tober 13, in the auditorium, Miss Shaw presiding. Medals were 

 presented by Dr. Gager as follows : For the best individual display, 

 gold medals to 19 boys, 6 girls, and one school (P. S. 104) ; bronze 

 medals to 12 boys and 8 girls. For work of superior merit in the 

 children's garden and courses, including general helpfulness and 

 fine spirit, silver medals to 5 boys and 5 girls ; bronze medals to 

 9 boys and 14 girls. For excellent work, two books from the 

 Flatbush Garden League to Marie Einbeck and Stanley Kosowicz. 

 Honor gold medals given by Miss Shaw were presented by her to 

 Jeanette Midas and Martin Nash. The silver cup from the Gar- 

 den Teachers Association to James Lof tus Hall ; a silver cup, com- 

 peted for only by girls, was given by Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler, 

 and presented by her to Isabell E. Kline. For the best small 

 school display of flowers and potted plants, two books, as second 

 prize, were presented to Public Schools 70, 89, and one book as 

 honorable mention, to Public Schools 46, 69, 182. For best win- 

 dow box display, two books as second prize to P. S. 41, one book 

 as honorable mention to P. S. 90 and P. S. 147. 



The First Prize in Class C {Window Box Display), a loving cup, 

 to P. S. 49. This now becomes the property of this school, having 

 been won three times. The loving cup in Class B {Small School 

 Display) to P. S. 129, and the Trophy as First Prize in Class A 

 (Vegetables), Small School Display, to P. S. 109. This is a new 

 trophy, the first one having become the permanent property of 

 P. S. 89 last year, after the third award. The new trophy, a 

 bronze tablet on wooden back, has at the top, in has relief, a picture 

 of a large group of public school classes leaving the Laboratory 

 Building after an educational motion-picture lecture. 



