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NOES: 
Annual Party of the Boys and Girls’ Clubs —The children’s 
annual ice-cream party, the winding-up event of the children’s 
outdoor garden at the Botanic Garden, was given on Saturday, 
October 18. About 350 children assembled in the auditorium of 
cur building at 10 o’clock in the morning. The meeting was 
called to order by Lillian Baker, Vice-president of the Boys’ and 
Girls’ Clubs, acting in place of the President, who was absent. 
The chairman spoke a few words of welcome to the boys and 
girls, and also to the Director, Dr. Gager, and to Mr. Alfred T. 
White, the guest of the morning. Different boys and girls were 
called upon to describe to Mr. White the various phases of our 
work carried on here. Fifteen boys and girls received silver 
pins. Winning a pin is an important event, because the silver 
pin stands for a year of work upon some special subject. Sub- 
zects covered this year were soils, seed testing, indoor plant cul- 
ture, and the outdoor garden. One of the boys presented Mr. 
White with thirty-five dollars for the support of our little French 
orphan. The money is placed by the American Ouvroir Fund. 
Another boy presented the Director with twenty-five dollars to be 
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used to purchase whatever he chose for his personal office at the 
Botanic Garden building. Three friends, Mrs. Elizabeth Steeves, 
Mrs. Maria Magnusson, and Mr. Alfred DeLand, were each pre- 
sented with one of the children’s silver medals. This was a token 
of appreciation from the boys and girls for all the work these 
grown people have done for them—work unsolicited and most 
helpful. At the close of the meeting Private Maurice Campbell, 
the only member of this club who went to war, presented Mr. 
Alfred T. White with a German officer’s helmet. At the end of 
the meeting ice cream and cake were served—a glorious wind-up 
to our garden season. 
Awbury Arboretum —The Bulletin of the Geographical Society 
of Philadelphia for July, 1919, contains an account of a visit of 
the Society to the Awbury Arboretum on last June 7. This ar- 
boretum, comprising over 30 acres at Washington Lane Station, 
near Philadelphia, together with a generous endowment, was pre- 
