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Children’s Room 
A gift of $1,500 in 1921 from the late Mrs. George D. Pratt, 
supplemented in 1923 by a further gift of $500 from Mr. George 
. Pratt, has made it possible to provide a beautifully decorated 
room for the use of the Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Any boy or girl 
who is enrolled, or has been enrolled, in any of the children’s 
classes at the Garden is eligible for membership in this club, which 
now numbers about 1,000 active members. The room contains 
shelves for a nature-study library, of which a nucleus has already 
been secured, and is equipped with stereoscopic views, photographs, 
and preserved and living specimens of plant life, for the instruction 
and entertainment of boys and girls. The room is open free to all 
children. Contributions of specimens and of books on nature 
study and closely related subjects will be most welcome. 
Children’s Garden Building 
This is located in the northern part of the Children’s Garden 
plot and contains a conference room, and rooms for the storage of 
garden tools and implements. The children’s conference room 
was refitted last year with furniture appropriate to its uses. 
The furniture was a gift from Mrs. James H. Post. Various col- 
lections of plants, seeds, and insects of economic importance in the 
Garden are accessible here for consultation by the children. North 
of the Children’s Building is a plot planted to ornamental shrubs 
and herbaceous perennials for the instruction of the children. 
Children’s Gardens 
A plot of about three quarters of an acre in the southeast part 
of the Botanic Garden has been set aside for the theoretical and 
practical instruction of children in gardening. The larger part of 
this area is laid out in garden plots which will accommodate about 
150 children. In 1925 there was added to the southern part of 
this plot a Shakespeare Garden, the gift of Mr. Henry S. Folger. 
