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There were 218 boys and girls registered in the spring classes, 
which this year were divided into two distinct units, one beginning 
the 25th of March and running for six weeks, taking up lessons in 
planting of seeds, testing of soil, and acquaintance with the 
grounds in the spring, while the second unit began on the 22d of 
April and worked entirely upon their plans and studies of vegeta- 
bles and flowers preparatory to the outdoor garden project. These 
classes rotated from one instructor to another for better ac- 
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quaintance with instructors and to carry on the Departmenta 
work in a richer way. 
June, July, August, and September were spent in the outdoor 
garden with a registration of 235 students. 
In our fall classes, the registration figure was 185. 
Our teachers’ classes were carried on as usual. This year two 
series of special free lectures for elementary schools were given 
at the Botanic Garden, one in the spring and one in the fall. At 
our spring series 18 elementary schools from Brooklyn and 14 
from Queens participated, with Abraham Lincoln High School 
and Kings County Hospital also represented. In the fall were 
registered 32 elementary schools from Brooklyn, 6 from Queens, 
Wadleigh High School, the Manhasset School, and Miss Beard’s 
School of Orange, N. J 
I would like to draw to your attention the enormous amount of 
detail which is involved in the work of this Department, detail 
which has grown tremendously in the last few years and which 
has been handled efficiently and cheerfully with the same sized 
staff. Much of this work might easily be handled by someone less 
experienced and less well-trained than the instructors in the De- 
partment. T’wo thousand seven hundred ninety-three plants have 
heen given out to 119 different institutions, including elementary 
schools, high schools, junior high schools, colleges and universt- 
ties, private and parochial schools, and other institutions. Six 
hundred eight plants were placed in 74 different classrooms. 
More than 3,000 surplus perennials and annuals raised in our green- 
houses were supplied to 33 different institutions. Twenty-five 
collections of house plants varying in number from 8 plants to 2( 
were distributed to different schools, not for decoration, but for 
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study. 
