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cial place or private garden or estate. By the terms of the co- 
operative agreement the Federal Government pays the tuition of 
the men in training, and meets all necessary expense of equip- 
ment, in addition to paying the men a monthly allowance. The 
first student in this course registered on July 21. 
School Classes at the Garden—One of the most gratifying 
features of the educational work of the year has been the very 
large increase in the response of the schools to the advantages for 
cooperation afforded by the Garden. A total of 167 classes ac- 
companied by their teachers have visited the Garden, as against 
82 in 1918; the number of pupils in these classes was over [5,400 
as compared with a little less than 4,400 the preceding year. But, 
as the curator of elementary instruction points out in her report 
appended hereto, many if not most of these classes, are given 
three periods of work at each visit, occupying an entire half day. 
In order to compare these attendance figures, therefore, with 
those representing merely attendance at a lecture of one hour’s 
duration, which is the form museum and botanic garden coopera- 
tion with public schools most commonly takes, these attendance 
figures should be multiplied by three, which would give an at- 
tendance figure of over 46,000. This figure would be a truer 
index of the response of the schools and of the demands made 
upon the Botanic Garden. 
Even more gratifying than the increase in the numbers of 
pupils and classes, is the fact that a larger number of schools are 
using the Garden. As noted in the curator’s report, while only 
three schools, or less than one per cent., made any use of the 
Garden in 1913 when the work was started, last year 112 (or 
over 62 per cent.) of the public elementary schools, 11 high 
schools, and 9 parochial schools have been served in one way or 
another, and 30 per cent. of the elementary schools have sent 
classes here for instruction. For the first time since the Garden 
was established, classes have come to us from the boroughs of 
Manhattan and the Bronx. 
The advantages offered at the Garden include practical work 
in the children’s greenhouse in plant propagation, and other sub- 
jects, laboratory and field study in the plantations and conserva- 
tories, and a certain amount of public eee to larger groups. 
