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“ Brooklyn Recreation Center, 
Works Division, Emergency Relief 
Bureau, 
Brooklyn, N. Y., 
June 6, 1935, 
“.. . Please accept my sincerest thanks for the one hundred packages of 
seeds you so generously contributed to our program. 
“ Needless to say, these seeds will be distributed among our play areas 
where the children who attend them will be encouraged to cultivate their 
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own gardens. 
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There have been no great changes in personnel this year. The 
Assistant Curator of Elementary Instruction was granted a year’s 
leave of absence for study in England. Miss Dorward left the 
Garden in August and started her work in September at The 
Horticultural College for Women, at Swanley, England, under 
the directorship of Dr. Kate Barratt, who visited us during our 
twenty-fifth anniversary and spoke at the horticultural session. 
Miss Dorward’s position is left unfilled for the year. Extra 
assistance was needed, however, and Miss Beatrice Clark, Wellesley 
1935, was appointed, and also Miss Mary McArdle, a former 
student, for part time work. 
I spent the summer in Europe visiting famous gardens, and since 
I was to be abroad, offered to attend the International Botanical 
Congress in Amsterdam to represent the Garden since no delegate 
could be sent by the Garden. This offer was accepted and I spent 
the first week in September attending the meetings. 
T still act as Honorary Secretary of the National Plant, Flower 
and Fruit Guild, and serve on the Central Borough Committee, 
Brooklyn Girls’ Work Council, and as a member of Tufts College 
Alum Council. I am also Vice President of the New York 
Chapter of The American Nature Study Society. I have written 
the usual weekly articles (37 in all) for The New York Su, 
carried a heavy speaking program, and in November, at the re- 
quest of the Board of [ducation of East Orange, New Jersey, 
inaugurated a series of monthly lecture-conferences for their 
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teachers which will extend well into 1936, 
Respectfully submitted, 
ELLen Eppy Suaw, 
Curator of Elementary Instruction. 
