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jects chosen by the child under the supervision of the Acting 
Assistant Curator, and is carried on during the months of Jan- 
uary, February, March, and the summer season. This summer 
special problems, with no regard to honors, were carried on by 
different boys and girls in the garden. The subjects taken up 
were the following: The Growth and Study of Different Members 
of the Cabbage Family; How Different Fertilizers Affect the 
Growth of Kohlrabi; Herbs; Study of the [Effect of Mulch Paper 
upon Common Vegetables, such as Tomatoes. 
The total number of packets of seed which left our seedroom 
was over a million. Some of these seeds, of course, were used 
in our Brooklyn Botanic Garden teachers’ and children’s classes, 
and some of them were given to institutions to assist their work, 
so the million packets do not represent the actual sale of seed, but 
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this figure does represent the output of labor. 
Martin Nash received the Alfred T. White Scholarship for the 
year of 1930. He is a freshman at Long Island University. 
Nearly 200,000 people were affected by the conferences held by 
the Curator. These conferences for the most part represent plans 
for nature study and gardening for elementary schools in our 
own borough. These plans are not plans for the future, but they 
represent active and immediate work. 
It is difficult to ascertain the number of people viewing exhibits 
set up by the Department. For example, the one placed in Abra- 
ham & Straus’ store was viewed by numberless people, but the 
y determined. The Department 
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exact number was never accurate 
also set up an exhibit in the Brooklyn Eagle Building as part of a 
children’s exhibit and won for this a silver cup representing the 
best exhibit set up. 
As a new feature in our school contacts, the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden this year gave a medal to all schools having school gardens 
up to a certain standard. Delegates from the schools receiving 
medals came to the Garden and received their honors. Mr. Van 
Evrie Kilpatrick, Director of Nature Garden Work for the Board 
of Education, spoke on that occasion. Twenty-five schools re- 
ceived medals. 
There have been many changes in the personnel of the Depart- 
ment during this year, and it might be fitting here to say that the 
