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for a Red Cross benefit. Five dozen plants were given at 
Christmastime to Hospitalized Service Men. 
e Department assisted in two series of Victory Garden lec- 
tures given at Bloomingdale's. 
A special course was given to teachers from the Brooklyn High 
School for Specialty Trades at the request of their Principal. 
The Assistant Curator worked with the Harmon Foundation 
on a garden film which has not been completed. 
It might be pertinent to mention here that the extra Victory 
Garden courses given to teachers include practice for every 
single teacher in spading, raking, hoeing, making of drills and 
hills, and planting of seed. 
The fourth in our series of booklets, ‘Our Boys and Girls 
Club,” has been printed. 
The Boys and Girls Club still supports as a war project the 
Christmas treat for boys and girls of our village—Northbourne, 
England. £18 sterling and two boxes of clothing were sent to 
the Village this vear. 
The sum of $50 was given by the Goodman Family to remake 
the rose garden in the Children’s Garden area and to buy new 
roses. This is a memorial garden to Bernard Goodman, once a 
member of the Boys and Girls Club. 
Miss Sadie Hecht’s gift of four war bonds for the Ellen Eddy 
Shaw Endowment Fund should also be noted. 

Respectfully submitted, 
ELLEN Eppy SHaw, 
Curator of Hlementary Instruction. 
REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PLANTS FOR 1943 
To THE ACTING DIRECTOR: 
In the list of trees of the Garden printed two years ago were 
included a number of small doubtfully hardy trees in the nursery, 
most of these have not survived t 
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1e past two winters. We have 
had many trees, for example Sequota and Abies concolor, living to 
ten vears or so, then loosing them in an unfavorable season. — If 
we could, by special care or soil conditions, bring them to a larger 
