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tory Building for the office and the library, and besides that, 
bouquets went home to the children’s parents. July 12 was the 
annual visiting day for parents. Each mother received some 
lavender raised in our garden and each father a flower for his 
buttonhole. 
Other groups visited us during the summer—a class from New 
York University and a group of women from Cedarhurst, where 
a garden according to the plan of our garden was started by the 
mothers of two of our garden boys who come from there. This 
was started in connection with one of the local elementary schools, 
and in the fall, the Curator visited this garden at their final meet- 
ing, and presented some of the prizes. 
The Shakespeare Garden had no new additions, but was car- 
ried on effectively. Twenty bronze and twelve silver medals were 
presented at our annual party in the fall. Pictures were taken 
of different operations in the spring and during the summer and 
fall by our photographer, Mr. Buhle, and a very excellent new 
set of lantern slides was made and colored. This was financed 
by a gift made sometime ago by the Woman's Auxiliary, 
During the spring the Head Garden Teacher gathered together 
material for an exhibit representing all phases of our children’s 
work. This is ready to be set up at a minute’s notice. 
In May the Plant, lower and Fruit Guild of Brooklyn  pre- 
sented a sum of money to buy hydrangeas for the urns placed in 
front of the children’s garden house. These were presented and 
dedicated on May 5 in loving memory of Mrs. M. C. Plough, 
former secretary of the Brooklyn Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild. 
In Novem 
meet at the Garden for an annual survey of their work. At this 
ver we invited the schools having school gardens to 
al 
time a child delegate from each school spoke, telling of some 
unusual feature in his own school garden. There were forty 
schools invited to attend this meeting. 
The number of conferences this year has been far greater than 
during 1932. Over 200,000 children were reached through con- 
ferences with teachers and principals. 
Dr. William G. Vinal of the School of Education, of Cleveland. 
Ohio, took one of our regular nature study periods (B2) this 
spring. 
