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built according to our own plan, with plants ranging in number 
from 5,000 to over 10,000 or 12,000 in the season when we have 
young seedlings. 
Those eight plants referred to represent the beginning of work 
for adults. A short lecture course was started on October 28, 
1913. This course was held in what is now the children’s club- 
room, the only lecture room we had at that time. Now our courses 
for adults are many and varied. 
In January, 1914, teachers’ classes were started with seven 
young women, the beginning of all the work we now offer to 
elementary and high school teachers. \We have 355. teachers 
registered in our teachers’ classes for 1933. 
Seed work was started in 1914, when we filled about 25,000 
packets of seed, stamped the name of the seed on a plain Manila 
envelope, and used thimbles as fillers. \We now have an adequate, 
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well-stocked, well-arranged sced-room where over a million packets 
of seed are filled annually. 
From a single principal's comming to discuss plans for his 
school with me in October of that first year, the year of 1933 
represents a total number of conferences reaching 9,000. 
The children’s outdoor garden was started in 1914 on the piece 
of land now occupied by our main building and the strip of land 
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upon which the instruction greenhouses now stand. This land 
was used for 60 children coming from the practice school of 
Pratt Institute and as a practice garden for junior and senior 
students of Pratt Institute Kindergarten Department. The main 
garden, with its 80 children, was the garden training school for 
the young women students at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It 
was the mother of our present garden which accommodates over 
200 boys anc 
There are two main aims in our children’s work, one to instill 
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girls. 
in the minds of numberless children a love and appreciation of the 
outdoors; the other, a hope that from these boys and girls, espe- 
cially from those in our Saturday morning classes, there may 
develop a contribution to science from some outstanding young 
person in the field of botany. Twenty years is not long enough 
to tell this story; but at the present time we have the following 
of our young people connected definitely with the subject of 
