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The Department set up 19 exhibits. These were viewed by 
about 500,000 people, and included exhibits put up in schools, at 
the Children’s Science Fair, and at the Namm Store. 
More than 1,200 people received instruction in our greenhouses. 
In January of last year our greenhouses had in them about 5,000 
plants. These plants, representing stock material, have been 
raised entirely by the Department this year. Most years we pur- 
chase some new stock, but this year every effort has been made to 
reduce the expenditure, which, of course, has increased the amount 
of detail work. 
A course called “ Fundamentals of Gardening” was given by 
Mr. Free and myself, I giving the two greenhouse lessons in the 
course. 
During the spring we took over the planning and execution of 
the spring docentry for outside visiting clubs. This took up a 
great deal of time and energy of the members of the Department. 
From fifteen volumes of the National Geographic Magazine which 
had been presented to us, instructors in the Department sorted 
out, by subject, articles pertaining to plant life and geographic 
lore and bound up 72 volumes in small editions. 
The penny-packet seed work was carried on as usual. It might 
be of some interest to note that about 1,000 pounds of seed are 
bought, envelopes filled, and seed orders packed and counted out. 
This work takes most of the time of one of the instructors from 
November to May, and during the summer when a great deal of 
the filling of seed is done by the boys and girls of our outdoor 
garden. 
The children’s garden was carried on as usual, and it is to be 
noted that, notwithstanding the financial situation in our country, 
more children left the city for long vacations, for camp and 
country, than ever before in the history of the garden, thus mak- 
ing garden attendance irregular. Through a gift of money from 
Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, it was possible for us to have some 
extra help on the Silver Pin work which is one interesting feature 
of our summer’s work. A new feature of our garden this year 
was a little course in the study of flower arrangement. This 
group of students kept the house supplied with flowers and made 
up bouquets every week. Flowers were sent up to the Labora- 
