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The Children’s Garden carried on its usual summer program 
much interfered with by drought. Registration for the summer 
was 277. An astonishingly fine crop was raised in spite of the 
dry weather. Certain figures may here be of interest, such as 1 
ton of tomatoes (nearly twice the crop of the past few years) ; 
15,000 radishes ; 8,000 carrots ; 6,000 beets. While these are mere 
figures, they do tell something of the work done by these boys and 
girls. The Children’s Garden was used more this year for outside 
groups than has been done for a great many years. The Girl 
Scouts received instruction once a week and had a demonstration 
plot in the area. The Garden Club of Public School 9, which 
worked here once a week in after-school time throughout the 
school year, learned to plant an annual border, had lessons in 
cultivation in the perennial border, and in how to cut grass and 
take weeds from the lawn. This group contributed a great deal 
to the work of the garden. Public School 183 sent a class for 
practical lessons in soil preparation and planting. They also 
helped in the planting of the border and had practice in the use 
of tools and the planting of seed. This group demonstrated in 
their own garden the lessons they had learned at the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden. Our Children’s Garden was visited by the Ridge- 
field Park (N. J.) Girl Scouts to see the work of the Brooklyn Girl 
Scouts. Miss Mackey, of the Brooklyn, Plant, Flower and Fruit 
Guild, asked the children to donate bouquets for school lunch- 
rooms that were to be open in the summer under the W.P.A. 
supervision. For five weeks bouquets were presented for this 
purpose. 
A small waterproof label for the Shakespeare Garden was tried 
out this summer with considerable success. It was lettered and 
prepared by Miss Carroll 
In September winter rye was planted in the Children’s Garden, 
to be plowed in this next spring. This was planted in the hope 
that not only will some food content be added to the soil, but also 
that the water-holding capacity may be increased. 
At Christmas time the boys and girls presented from their 
pennies saved last summer, the sum of $50 to defray the expenses 
of publishing the Children’s Map of the Garden which was finished 
in December, 1938 
