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children’s outdoor garden was an exhibit in itself. “Twenty boys 
and girls were used to demonstrate our methods of work. About 
300 visitors saw the garden in full swing, and great interest was 
shown. 
There has been an increase in our penny-packet seed work. 
Over a million packets were distributed. This, of course, repre- 
sents an enormous amount of work throughout the year, and in 
this work the people assigned to my Department by the WPA 
(Federal Works Progress Administration) have been of real 
assistance. 
The class in Fundamentals of Gardening was held, as has been 
done for some years past, and another course, Greenhouse Gar- 
dening, was given for those who had been in Fundamentals of 
Gardening and desired to have more practice in greenhouse 
work. 
For several years we have been emphasizing in the work for 
our public and private schools a“ series-plan ” of lessons in school 
and atter school time. Schools availing themselves of this plan 
were the following : 
Abraham Lincoln High School 
Girls’ Commercial High School 
Adelphi Academy 
Packer Collegiate Institute 
Wilde Open Air School 
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On January 26 the children’s “ special honor classes” began 
their work. A group of five boys continued their study with the 
microscope with Miss Best. Miss Dorward took up, with some 
of the older girls, the subject of economic plants, their growth 
and use; Miss Miner had 
a group of boys and girls who made 
plans for the annual bor« 
er and started plants for the Shakespeare 
garden and the annual border. 
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Miss Hammond, with a selected group of boys and girls, revised 
the book of Flower Games. New games were added, some im- 
provements made in the old ones, while one or two, which the 
children found uninteresting, were dropped. New pictures were 
put in and the whole was reprinted. The money 
gift of last year from the Woman's Auxiliary. 
The regular children’s Saturday morning classes were started 
for this was a 
