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Twenty-five girls from the fifth and sixth grades of P. S. 66 
started work in the greenhouse, March 11. Nineteen of these 
girls received certificates. To gain a certificate ten lessons must 
be covered, the attendance must be perfect as well as the behavior. 
These children came, rain or shine, and it rained very often. Miss 
Howe, one of the kindergarten teachers from P. S. 66, came with 
the girls. No more satisfactory work was done this year than 
that done by this class. In June at the regular school exhibit, 
their garden products took a prominent place. It might be well 
to add that this class was held after school hours and that the 
children had two car lines to use on their way to the Garden. 
n outgrowth from this class was one of the prize home gar- 
dens, planted and cared for by three members of the class. These 
gitls borrowed a backyard, and had a garden in spite of the fact 
that not one of them owned a back yard. 
During April and May a series of lantern slide talks was given, 
to introduce the Botanic Garden to children in still another way. 
These talks, “ Stories about useful plants,” were on various sub- 
jects pertaining to economic plants, as follows: 
April 18. Rope and how it is made (manila and sisal fibers), 
April 25. The story of bread (wheat). 
May 2. Beverage plants (cocoa and chocolate). 
May 9. A plant serving a useful purpose (rubber). 
May 16. The food of a billion people (rice). 
Certain firms cooperated with the Garden by sending illustrative 
material for the talks, pictures from which lantern slides could be 
made, and even sets of slides. These firms were the Shredded 
Wheat Company, International Harvester Company, Waterman 
Pen Company, Seeman Brothers (wholesale grocers), FHuyler’s, 
and the Walter S. Baker Chocolate Co.. These fitms have our 
heartiest thanks for making it possible adequately to illustrate 
these talks. 
When the talks were planned the question arose of how to touch 
as many children as possible. These little lectures were to be 
given on Saturdays, a day when the schools have no jurisdiction 
over the children. Our lecture room holds but fifty, with any 
degree of comfort, when the lantern is used. So the following 
