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The last table of schools shows all the elementary schools which 
participated in any of our activities. It differs a bit from the 
other tables in that it has added to it those schools calling upon 
us for lectures at the school itself for the assemblies, graduation 
exercises, and Mothers’ Clu 
So 62 + per cent. of all the elementary schools of our borough 
have made use of the garden this year. This does not include 
private, parochial nor the high schools. The high schools have 
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Fic. 12. Kindergarten class infringing the rules (!) to gather buttercups 
and dandelions for their nature study lesson, May, IgIo. 
all been represented here this year, either by main building or 
annex students. 
The registration number of our regular garden classes, com- 
posed of adults and juniors, is 4,056. This is a figure worthy 
of a large school or a college. Our courses vary in time length 
from eight weeks to six and ten months. 
To summarize: The department of elementary instruction has 
during 1919 reached 62+ per cent. of all the elementary schools, 
100 per cent. of the high schools, a good number of the parochial 
schools, a small number of the private schools; it has conducted 
