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and Mr. Van Evrie Kilpatrick. Special prizes given at this time 
were as follows: two cups for outstanding work done by boys in 
our own garden, to Robertson Pratt and Bernard Goodman, by 
Miss Helen G. Woodruff, acting for the Garden Teachers’ Associ- 
ation of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; the Butler cup, for 
excellent work done by a girl, to Esther Kroesen, by Mrs. 
Glentworth R. Butler; four garden books to Eleanor Garden 
and Eleanor Chambers, by Mrs. Carson of the Flatbush Garden 
League; a garden book for special work to Virginia and Frances 
Schrader, by Miss Alice Driggs; and two gold honor pins to 
Gertrude Adelman and Bernard Goodman, by the Curator. 
Mrs. Butler presented to the Children’s library a book on “The 
Shakespeare Garden,” given by Mrs. Adrian Van Sinderen, and 
an olive-wood box containing samples of woods from the Holy 
Land, a souvenir of her recent trip to the Holy Land. 
Some special things have happened in the Department stich 
might well be stressed in this report. 
May 13 the Heads of the Department Association of Brooklyn 
held its meeting at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
December 19 was the date of the children’s annual Christmas 
party, made delightful through the kindness of Mrs. Butler, who 
told personal reminiscences of the Holy Land and showed costumes 
from there; Mrs. Teresa Wolfe Rashkis, who sang folk-lore and 
Christmas songs; and Mrs. Orland E. White, who told a Christ- 
mas story. The usual presentations were made from the children 
to the Garden. A bunting flag for their own outdoor garden and 
a smaller bunting flag mounted on a flagpole were the gifts for 
1925. The Agricola, our Boys’ and Girls’ Club Magazine, pre- 
sented $25 in gold to the Director toward the endowment fund, 
and the Treasurer of the Boys’ and Girls’ Club presented a second 
$25 in gold for the same purpose. Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler 
presented to the Agricola a fine Underwood typewriter, a gift 
from Mr. Underwood himself, who is one of our trustees. 
In closing this report I would like to speak of the untiring 
zeal and kindness shown by Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler in 
making gifts possible for the Department’s work, and also of 
the understanding spirit she has shown toward its ideals. 
I would speak too of the various gifts of books, pictures and 
slides presented by individual members of the Woman’s Auxiliary, 
old students, and other friends of the department. 
