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plan was adopted. Five tickets were sent to each of ten different 
schools, with the request that they be given to children who would 
use them. Tickets were sent to a different set of schools for each 
talk. Those who came reported to their respective schools on the 
subject taken up that special Saturday. Boys from one of the 
older classes operated the lantern. This class, drawn from Poe 
g and P. S. 168, with a number from the preparatory department 
of the Polytechnic Institute, stands ready always to assist in the 
work for the younger boys and girls. . 
The outdoor work in the Botanic Garden is an outgrowth from 
the indoor greenhouse classes, and a part of the teachers’ course 
in the preparation of school garden teachers. One of the sepa- 
rate courses for teachers is a summer’s experience with children 
in a garden, and so our children’s garden this year has represented 
a training ground for these young women. 
The children’s garden, as before stated in the RecorpD (January, 
1914), was divided into two parts, one an area 75 ft. x 50 ft., with 
thirty plots, each approximately 714 ft. x 5 ft.; the other, 84 ft. 
26 ft., with 60 plots, each 4x6 ft. This division into two sepa- 
rate gardens is by no means ideal, but the present site of the 
children’s garden is temporary. The division was made because 
the senior kindergarten students from Pratt Institute took a 
course in gardening at the Botanic Garden, and needed a portion 
of the available space for their practice garden. 
Sixty children, two to each plot, were allotted places in this 
practice garden. Through the center of each plot was planted a 
row of bush beans, and in each half there were beets, onion sets, 
carrots, lettuce and radish. This garden was managed and the 
lessons given, until June 15, by the Pratt students. At that time 
the children had taken out of their plots radishes, lettuce, young 
carrots, thinnings of beets, and string beans. About the garden, 
groups of children planted broom-corn, sunflowers, and three 
ornamental flower beds from seedlings started by the Pratt seniors 
in the greenhouse prior to their outdoor work. So the children 
received lessons in laying out a garden, planting, transplanting, 
cultivation, second crops, and ornamental flower beds. 
At the time the seniors left, a number of children left for their 
vacations, and so the number of pupils in the garden was reduced 
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