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almost entirely those sent to schools fen* use of the entire school 

 or to school nature rooms or to the School Nature League. 

 Among those of special Interest were the following. 



The exhibit set up for the Girl Scouts at the Thirteenth Armory in May. 



This consisted of model grounds with a lake, vegetable garden, and 



flower garden, and utilized seedlings raised in our greenhouse. 

 The exhibits which were set up Saturday mornings tliroughout the spring 



in the clubroom were : 

 Plants blooming in the greenhouse 

 Early twigs, showing buds 

 Twigs for indoor forcing- 

 Tree exhibit (showing leaves, twigs, pictures of whole trees, and fruit 



of each) 

 Economic plants 



Early blooming trees and shrubs 

 Twigs in leaf 



Interesting plants in the greenhouse 

 A bud exhibit 

 An exhibit with pictures showing activities of early spring in other parts 



of the United States in agriculture and forestry 



Special Departmental Features 



Miss Hammond, Assistant Curator of Elementary Instruction, 

 was granted a continued leave of ahsence until Septeiuher i, 1930. 



The Curator of Elementary Instruction has written a series of 

 thirty-seven articles for the New York Sun, and six articles for 

 The American Home besides other publications. 



The Acting Assistant Curator has prepared a " List of Books 

 on Gardening and Botanical Nature Study." 



The Alfred T. White Scholarship this year was awarded to 

 Rosemary Kennelly, a sophomore at St. Joseph's College for 

 Women. 



The Girl Scouts of Red ]3ank, New Jersey, carried on a demon- 

 stration Scout garden. Miss Sargent, of our department, was 

 assigned to assist in this work and supervise it, going once every 

 two weeks to Red Bank. She also carried on the little garden 

 at the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives under the auspices of 

 the Brooklyn Branch, National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild. 



The Curator of Elementary Instruction was given a five months' 

 leave of absence. Because of this an extra assistant was appointed, 



