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Each year we have encouraged some outside gardens in their 
work with children, gardens with which we have had some direct 
contact. A medal was given to a member of the Cedarhurst 
School Garden, a little sister of our garden; one to the children’s 
garden at Cornwall fostered by us; and another to the children’s 
garden at the Brooklyn Home for Consumptives, a garden which 
one of our own young people has taught and conducted for some 
years. Two gardens for children were started at Gerrittsen 
Beach through our work here, both of them taught and managed 
by our students. 
This might be a fitting place and time to thank the Woman’s 
Auxiliary for the money given to the Department, the proceeds of 
a lecture by Mr. McClintock. The audience was one of children, 
parents, and teachers. This money made it possible for us to 
run our children’s garden this summer with greater ease and 
efficiency. 
I would also like to thank Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, Chairman 
of the Woman’s Auxiliary, for the donation made for special work 
of one of our outstanding young people. This afforded an op- 
portunity for one of our older high school people to do some work 
with Dr. George M. Reed, an opportunity prized highly by our 
young people who think of going into botanical research. 
On September 1, Miss H. Dorothy Jenkins resigned, and Miss 
Elsie T. Hammond, formerly at the Garden, was appointed in 
her place. 
It has not been possible to accept some of the important re- 
quests for speaking that have come this year. The National 
Recreational Association Congress met in Washington in October 
and desired a talk on children’s work. <A similar request came 
from the Detroit Garden Club and the American Nature Study 
Society meeting in December with the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science. These are occasions at which a 
presentation of our work should be given. 
I attended the meeting of the National Education Association 
in Washington as President of the Department of Science Instruc- 
tion, a most successful meeting. My term of office expired with 
this meeting. 
In October I gave a talk on the importance of junior garden 
