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in the greenhouses by children from eight years up to adult age ; 

 models of flowers representing different flower families which 

 were made by children in Saturday morning classes ; garden plans 

 made by little children and older ones ; notebooks ; and exhibits 

 set up by young people working on juvenile " research," such as 

 the importance of economic plants and their use in visiting classes. 

 All the steps of garden work were demonstrated, from the ger- 

 minating of seed, methods of ])ropagation and contrcjl, and culture 

 of plants, to our flower borders worked out in masses of harmoniz- 

 ing colors and drawn to proper scale. Many other features were 

 used for making clear to children the beauty of the plant world 

 — drawings, charts, water colors of plants, seeds, seedling habits 

 of growth, and life cycles. These features are used not only for 

 Saturday morning classes, but also with visiting classes and as 

 lecture material on trips to garden clubs and schools. 



In order to show the work done in connection with the private 

 and public schools, certain schools were chosen to display their 

 work. In the corridor outside the Exhibit Room the fifth grade 

 of the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School placed on exhibit their 

 regular classwork on " Cotton," ^\■hich had been supplemented by 

 work here at the Botanic Garden. On a table were shown ex- 

 periments including tests of cotton and wool, the making of nitro- 

 cellulose and plastics from cotton. There were also drawings, a 

 small cotton gin made by a student, and songs composed by the 

 children and supposedly sung l)y cotton pickers in the held. 



P. S. 241, a neighborhood schotd, presented their w(jrk on cotton 

 by means of a series of pictures to relate the story (jf cotton from 

 earliest times up to the present day. 



P. S. 119 sent drawings and written English on the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden month l)y month. This class, with its teacher, 

 Miss Ethel Cameron, had visited the Garden each inonih during 

 the major part of a year. 



Work done by the Garden Clul) of P. S. 9 in our greenhouses 

 on weekly visits through the school year was on display. The 

 Kindergarten of P. S. 183 was also represented by charts show- 

 ing how the kindergartners and first-graders of the school took 

 charge of the ordering of jjenny ]iackets of seed from the (Jarden, 



