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school garden, which had been supervised throughout the entire 
summer by a teacher appointed by the Board of Education. 
This work is under the general direction of Mr. Van Evrie Kil- 
patrick. A number of other schools, old exhibitors, are super- 
vised in the same way as P. S. 82. 
Unfortunately the rotunda was not adequate for the placing 
of all of the individual displays, so these were in another room. 
‘They represented all the single entries of the individual boys and 
girls, with the exception of the backyard garden display. Per- 
haps the most interesting work of all came under the head “ Back- 
yard Gardens.” The best backyard gardens planted and taken 
care of by boys and girls of this borough receive prizes in War 
Stamps. The first prize is three War Stamps; the second, two 
War Stamps; and the third one stamp (the equivalent of five 
dollars). Each year sixty to a hundred boys and girls enter this 
contest. Their gardens are visited three times during the sum- 
mer by members of the staff of the Botanic Garden, and each 
time some gardens are ruled out of the contest for good and suffi- 
cient reasons. The boy or girl is always told why he is being 
dropped out. At the end of the season the contestants get 
warmer and warmer, until finally, two days ahead, you see the 
— 
boys and girls rushing in with their plans, diagrams, lists of 
amount of money spent, and amount of money taken out of the 
garden. I wonder if any man or woman could do any better 
than young Carl Klostermaier, who spent $2.67 on his garden 
35/ X 60’, and took out of it $106.60. Pretty good! Or would 
you like to have been Anita Cooper, who took a big, weedy, va- 
cant lot 100’ X 100’, and canned, and canned, and canned all 
joel, 
summer long? You should see the ears of corn she has taken 
from that garden, and all sorts of other good things! 
The rest of the individual displays were in classes for vege- 
tables, flowers, potted plants, pressed wild flowers and pressed 
weeds. The classes for pressed wild flowers and weeds and that 
of the backyard gardens, represent the three classes in which 
pot 
most of our high school boys and girls make their entries. 
The great benefit derived from such an exhibit is not only that 
of creating public interest and understanding, but the exhibit 
always creates in the minds of the individual boy or girl and of 

