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is much handicapped by lack of space in a small and crowded 
room, a mere slice cut from a larger room. Three-quarters of a 
million packets of seed are prepared and distributed annually. 
Progress in the children’s garden during the year has been 
along the line of student teacher training and practice. It is 
hoped that during this next year it will be possible to gather 
together and put into printed form a description of our children’s 
work and the underlying principles upon which it is based. There 
is a constant and increasing educational demand for such a 
publication. 
Throughout this year there have been certain interesting and 
outstanding features of work that might well come to your atten- 
tion. In May the children produced a little play depicting the 
scope of our work and our service to schools and presented it at 
the Annual Luncheon of the School Garden Association. It is 
the custom of this organization each year to ask some school or 
other organization to present some feature of its work. 
A meeting was held at the Garden in November of delegate 
students from all the school gardens of this Borough to receive 
the commendation which, by request of Mr. Kilpatrick, this 
institution each year has given. 
There are three distinct sessions of our children’s Saturday 
morning work, fall classes, spring classes, and the outdoor 
garden, given each year. In that period which comes immedi- 
ately after Christmas and before the spring session begins, we ask 
back in small groups some of our honor students. This past year 
our work at that time came under the headings of ‘“‘Fun with the 
Microscope”’ and ‘The Making of Wind Instruments,” involving 
an interesting use of plant materials. This latter course was 
given by Miss Carleen Maley, who volunteered her services for 
the year to the Department of Elementary Instruction. 
We have been honored by a goodly number of visitors, among 
them friends from abroad, including Mrs. Henry Gage Spicer, 
member of the London County Council; Dr. E. P. Phillips, Princi- 
pal Botanist, Division of Plant Industry, Pretoria, South Africa, 
and Miss Elsie Knight, Principal of one of the elementary schools 
in London. At their request our printed forms and some of the 
children’s work were sent to them. 
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