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more varied than in the spring. All the classes made bayberry 
candles for Christmas, and, with the exception of the little girls 
who made Christmas cards with plant designs, they did some work 
in the greenhouses. Thirty-two of the younger girls had special 
nature work with Miss Hammond and set up two bird-feeding 
stations for Thanksgiving and trimmed a Christmas tree with suet 
and other food for the birds. 
Miss Michalena Carroll gave a course of six art lessons to Miss 
Hammond's group of girls, with designs based upon plant life. 
The fall work ended with the annual Christmas party in the chil- 
dren’s clubroom, at which each child received a Christmas plant. 
So much interest in junior garc 
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en work was shown during 
Flower Show week 

an interest which has been building up 
throughout the last few yvears—that a conference was held here 
at the Garden for those concerned in that work. There was a good 
response to this, and throughout the year many requests have come 
in for assistance in this particular side of work. In fact, the num- 
ber of people reached through conferences has greatly increased 
so that nearly 100,000 people were assisted in various ways through 
this one avenue alone. 
Another increase in our work has come through the distribution 
of plants raised in our own Botanic Garden classes. By an oc- 
casional visit to these three very much overcrowded instructional 
greenhouses of ours, one cannot realize the output. About 30,000 
plants went out from the regular classwork alone; which figure 
does not include the plants raised by the children for their gardens. 
The amount of nature material sent to institutions of all sorts 
is rapidly increasing. Last summer one of the older boys spent 
two days a week in the country collecting nature material, and Miss 
Hammond spent a part of the summer and some time during the 
fall on this work. 
Such letters as the following tell their own story. 
“ Straubenmuller Textile High School, 
ew York, N. Y., 
December 20, 1935. 
oday we are returning the exhibit of house plants which you were 
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ges wll@) 
oeaal enough to lend our school for Science Week. 1e show and other 
events have been a great success and we greatly appreciate your part in it.” 
