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Because of the conditions of the times I shall not present to 
you any needs from this Department or any requests for extra 
help or for expenditures. 
The first week in July I attended the National Education As- 
sociation meetings at Chicago and took charge of the meetings of 
the Department of Science Instruction of which I am President. 
In October 1 was invited to go to Rockford, Hhnois, to speak 
before the Winnebago County Institute of Teachers on the meth- 
ods by which we carry on our children’s work. At the December 
meeting of the American Nature Study Society with the American 
for the Advancement of Science in Boston, Miss 
Association 
Jenkins, of this Department, spoke on “ By-products of a Chil- 
The new set of lantern slides, of which I have 
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dren’s Garden.” 
spoken before, had their christening at this time. 
I was asked to serve on the Advisory Board of the Horticultural 
College of Southern California, affliated with Pasadena Junior 
College; and as chairman of the Nature Craft Committee of the 
Brooklyn Camp Fire Girls. I also continue to act as Honorary 
Secretary of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild. Dur- 
ing the year I wrote thirty-eight articles for the Garden Page of 
the New York Sun, and eight articles for McCall's Magazine. 
Since 1933 represents twenty years of my work in the Depart- 
ment of Elementary Instruction, I would like to mention a few 
facts concerning this Department. Its broad plans were laid 
down by the Director before I was chosen to start the work. It 
has been my great privilege to take these plans and without any 
change in the lines originally laid down to interpret and to en- 
large upon them as work and opportunity dictated. 
< over the history of these twenty years, | would 
In looking bacl 
I came to the Garden on 
like to review some of the early years. 
October 1, 1913. On October 6 my first class was taught, a class 
from the Girls’ High School, seventeen girls to be instructed in 
the indoor planting of bulbs. This represents the beginning of 
visiting classes, and from that figure of 17 girls in the fall of 1913 
we come to the fall of 1933 with an attendance at visiting classes 
of more than 68,000. There was one greenhouse in 1913. In it, 
during that month of October I gathered together for lecture 
purposes 8 plants. We now have three instruction greenhouses 
