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our former students, Idward Johnson, Rosemary Kennelly, and 
Cord Sump, were appointed to assist for the summer. Miss 
Michalena L. Carroll, an artist and able teacher, has had a tem- 
porary appointment to emphasize the part botany may play in art 
to groups of teachers, as well as children. During the spring, 
Miss Barbara Capen, a graduate of Lowthorpe School of Land- 
scape Architecture, Groton, Mass., helped in the greenhouses in 
order to gain some practical experience. 
Junior Garden Conference.—One of the outstanding features of 
interest in our educational program for 1936 was the Junior 
Garden Conference held at the Garden on March 17, during 
International Flower Show week. It was an all-day conference, 
a teaching conference in the field of junior garden work. Seventy- 
five delegates were here, representing many states—Arkansas, Con- 
necticut, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New Jersey, Michigan, 
Pennsylvania, New York State as far north as Buffalo, and south 
to Stony Brook and Riverhead, Long Island. Miss Miner and 
| took the morning of teaching sessions, the Woman's Auxilary 
served the luncheon, and Belter Homes and Gardens conducted 
the afternoon session. Calls have since come from the Garden 
Center Institute of Buffalo and the Skaneateles (N. Y.) Garden 
Club, as well as from the National Council of State Garden Clubs 
for assistance in forwarding Jumior Garden Work. 
Children’s Garden.—The high spots in the children’s gar« 
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typified by the range of interest shown by our young people. An 
exhibit of herbs; flowers from the Shakespeare Garden; an 
experiment with tomatoes, seeking new varieties for our soil con- 
ditions; two model formal flower gardens worked out from plans 
made in Miss Carroll's class; a try-out garden of English seed: 
these and other projects were carried out in the 1936 garden. 
The regular work went on, as usual, with thirty-one students 
ready for bronze medals in the fall, and eighteen for silver medals. 
The Garden Teachers’ Association Cup was presented to Hubert 
Zernickow ; the Butler Cup to Marjorie Niedfield, and the Bernard 
Goodinan Memorial Cup to Wilham McDonald. Several books 
were added to the children’s garden library. The boys and girls 
filled nearly 200,000 packets of seed (for school gardens) during 
the summer. 
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