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We have set up 15 special exhibits which were viewed by about 
40,000 people. Start at New Orleans in January; come to the 
Flower Show in New York in the spring; to Bay Shore in June, 
and to Atlantic City at the end of June, and you will have a little 
geographic view of our travelling exhibits. We received a blue 
ribbon at the Long Island Flower Show in Bay Shore, which was 
sponsored by the Second District of Federated Garden Clubs of 
New York State. Our entry was the model of a little outdoor 
garden such as children might set up. This was not entered in 
competition. 
The Department of [Elementary Instruction during 1932 con- 
ducted in regular classes, visiting classes, and lectures, both at the 
institution and outside, over 2000 periods of work, with a total 
attendance at these sessions of over 140,000. 
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NEEDS 
Our greatest need in greenhouse work is a propagating house for 
raising stock plants. Our present greenhouses are for instruction 
and are built and arranged for this. The difficulty of maintaining 
good stock plants in houses constantly used by classes is a problem 
hard to meet satisfactorily. 
We need avai 
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able funds in the seed work so that we may en- 
gage, during the summer each year, at least one older boy or girl to 
take charge of the seedroom; also to employ several young people 
to work on the preparation of mounts and nature supplies for 
distribution to schools during the fall and winter. 
In the Department we should have one person, not necessarily 
a teacher, to arrange materials, run the lanterns, and do such pieces 
of wor 
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< that now take the time of instructors which might be freed 
in this way for richer educational work. 
We need, and have needed for many years, a car so that we shall 
not have to depend upon the 
ounty of friends of the Garden and 
on schools in order to transport materials and lecturers from point 
to point. 
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PERSONAL ACTIVITIES 
During the past year the Curator has written a weekly article 
for the New York Sun from January to November; a series of 
five articles for MWecCaill’s Magazine, and five articles for “ New 
Jersey Gardens.” 
