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(d) The principal of any secondary or high school in Brooklyn 



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may arrange also for a series of six lessons on plant culture to be 

 given during the fall or spring to a class. These lessons will be 

 worked out for the most part m the greenhouse. Such a course 

 must be arranged for in advance, and the class must be accom- 

 panied by its teacher. Adapted for pupils above the fourth grade. 



3, Home Gardening.— 



—Assistance \vill be given to children in 

 planning and planting home gardens. . Enrollment 'cards for such 

 assistance may be had on application to the Curator of Elementary 

 Instruction. Prizes will be offered to both schools and individ- , 

 uals, at the annual Children's Garden Exhibit, for the best re- 

 suits in home gardening. This exhibit is open to all children in 

 the city of Brooklyn, although their garden products may have 

 been raised at their summer homes. Certifications must he made 

 that the work has been done by the child him-sclf. 



The exhibit for 1921 will be held on Friday and Saturday^ Sep- 

 tember 2^ and ^//. All exhibits^ of schools as well as of individ- 



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uals, must be brought to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden before 3 

 o'clock Thursday afternoon, September 22. The exhibit will be 

 judged at 4 o'clock on that afternoon, and will be open for public 

 schools all day Friday, when classes arc invited to come with their 

 teachers. The exhibit will be open to the general public on Friday 

 and Saturday from 10 to 4. After 4 o'clock on Saturday after- 

 noon the exhibitors may remove their exhibits. Prizes will be 

 presented on Saturday afternoon, October 8, at 2:30 o'clock. 



Gold and bronze medals will be awarded as first and second 

 prizes for individual exhibits. A trophy is the first prize for the 

 school making the best exhibit as a whole. A bronze statue is 

 another trophy given for the best school box display. Each trophy 

 is to be competed for annually until one school wins It three times^ 

 when it will become the property of that school. A new prize will 

 then be offered. 



4. Penny Packets of Seeds. — In order to assist the above work, 

 penny packets of seeds are put up by the Botanic Garden, for 

 children's use. In the early spring, lists of these seeds, condi- 

 tions for entry as an exhibitor, home gardening record cards, and 

 other information may be had on application to the Curator of 

 Elementary Instruction. 



