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of Brooklyn desiring to come. There was a registration the first 

 period of 550 teachers, a fine response. Each school represented 



received nature material to lie used in the classrooms in carrying" 

 out the lesson presented here. 



1 should like to call attention, in this report, to some ot the extra 

 work done by the Department. 



Each month through June a lecture was given in I\S. 233 on 

 Economic Plants, Followed up by the school. This is a service we 

 occasionally render. The work was carried on by Miss Carroll. 

 Also in addition to her regular activities, Miss Carroll in the sum- 

 mer gave another course' in Art Appreciation at the Blue Ridge 

 Southern Cultural Institutes, at Blue Ridge, X. C, and in the fall. 

 one in Rutherford, X. J., at the Rutherford Adult School. The 

 latter course extended over eleven weeks from late September to 

 December. These and other otttside activities bring many in- 

 quiries concerning the work here at the Garden, and hence repre- 

 sent a line publicity side. 



Miss Carroll arranged the color layout for the spring and autumn 

 folders of courses; designed and painted the poster for the subway 

 bulletin, and arranged for the duplication of the Anniversary let- 

 ters of the Alfred T. White Scholarship students for Miss Loines 

 and Mr. McDonald. She designed and engraved the printing 

 block for the place cards ttsed at our organization dinner on De- 

 cember 5. and also the certificates of honor for twenty-five years 

 of service which were given to fourteen members of the stall. In 

 December she designed a special scroll of honor tor the American 

 Fern Society. All these things were done in addition to regular 

 classwork. 



Certain honors and extra responsibilities have come to a number 

 of the members of this Department (hiring the year. The Curator 

 has acted as Secretary of the National Plant. Flower and bruit 

 Guild; and as President of the American Nature Study Society. 

 Miss Hammond, of the Department, is Vice-President of the New 

 York Chapter of the American Nature Study Society, and has 

 aeted on the program committee lor the year. Miss Miner was 

 elected President of the Garden Education Department of the Na- 

 tional Education Association at the July meeting ol the organiza- 

 tion in Milwaukee. 



