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PRESENTATION OF PRIZES 
On October 11 the prizes, awarded at the time of the Children’s 
Garden Exhibit, were presented to the winners. The Director 
of the Garden gave a short address of welcome and immediately 
presented the individual medals—silver medals for first prizes, 
and bronze medals for second prizes—to the boys and girls who 
had won them by the excellence of the crops raised in home and 
school gardens. Prizes were then awarded to boys and girls of 
our own children’s garden. These prizes consisted of silver and 
bronze medals and also Thrift and War Stamps. The Thrift 
Stamps were given for helpfulness in the garden; the War 
Stamps for carefully kept records of garden work. These prizes, 
having a total value of $307.06, are the gift of Mr. Alfred T. 
White to the children of our garden. 
Miss Sylvia Wilde, representing the Garden Teachers’ Asso- 
ciation, presented John Schmacke with a cup. Each year a cup 
is given by this Association to the boy or girl at the Botanic 
Garden who has done the best work during the season. This 
year a special prize was offered by the Flatbush Garden League 
to the boy or girl in our garden who was here for his first season 
and had shown the greatest improvement in work. This prize, 
awarded to Walter Hedberg, of P. S. No. 10, was presented by 
Miss Edith Hollis, secretary of the League. Each year one of 
the members of the Teachers’ Garden Course is presented with 
one of the children’s silver medals, in recognition of superior 
work. The recipient this year was Miss Olive Houghton, 
The winning schools were then awarded their prizes. In Class 
C, for the best window box display, P. S. No. 49 received a 
trophy, a bronze statue of Victory; while P. S. No. 43 received 
second prize, a silver cup. In Class B, Community Garden Dis- 
play, McCarren Park and Fort Greene Park Gardens won first 
prize, a large silver cup. Betsey Head and Highland Park Gar- 
dens received the second prize, a smaller silver cup. Class A, the 
most important class of all in which schools enter, has, as first 
prize, a bronze plaque which has to be won three times by one 
school before it becomes the property of the school. For two 
