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our outdoor gardens. Some boys and girls had more than one 
plot, the second plot representing larger areas for the raising of 
beans, corn, etc. We have two sizes of plots, the majority being 
plots 8 ft. by ro ft.; and larger ones, ro ft. by 20 ft.; in addition 
to this certain corn and bean areas consisted of irregular plots 
of much larger size. A total of $4,820.13 worth of crops was 
taken out of the children’s gardens during the season of 1918; 
making an average yield per plot of $15.34. But this average is 
not truly representative, since the plots vary in size. The aver- 
age yield from one 8 ft. by 10 ft. was approximately $10; while 
that from a Io ft. by 20 ft. plot was about $20. Some plots 
were worked by more than one child, as in the case of a large 
corn patch cultivated by twenty-four boys and girls. 
The following fact might be of interest: fifty-six schools 
all were represented in our garden work. Of this number six 
were high schools, eleven were parochial schools, and four were 
private schools; the thirty-five remaining being elementary pub- 
lic schools. It has been our aim to have represented in our 
garden a few boys and girls from as many schools as possible, 
rather than a large number of boys and girls from any one 
school; thus making the influence of the Botanic Garden felt 
widely over the entire city. 
As usual, penny packets of seeds were sold to the boys and 
girls of the city, but because of the high price of seed, the price 
had to be raised to two cents per packet, and about 94,000 packets 
were sold, not as many as in the past year. This is accounted 
for by the higher price of the packets and by increased family 
expenses, which made the buying of seed a matter of some con- 
cern even at two cents a packet. It is probable, however, that 
at two cents a packet a larger percentage of the seeds found their 
way into well tended gardens than would have been the case at 
one cent a package. 
Our summer school, with an enrollment of five members, a 
smaller number than we have had for some years, was perhaps 
the most rateresting one in the history of this Garden. Four of 
the members were high school teachers in this Borough, and were 
particularly interested in the application of garden work to high 
school botany. This demand determined the special trend of our 
