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from a given school, with parents or with children friends, would 
come to visit the Garden. One of our objects is to make this a 
place, not of casual curiosity, but of actual, helpful, everyday 
interest. So we have felt that the children of the city must use 
it regularly and with intelligence. 
During the past season, the Garden put up and delivered over 
25,000 penny packets of seeds for the school children. The list 
of seeds included the following: beans, beets, carrots, corn, kohl- 
rabi, lettuce, radish, tomato, cornflower, marigold, nasturtium, 
salvia, sunflower, sweet alyssum, verbena, and zinnia. 
These were put up in envelopes with cultural directions printed 
on the outside, as follows: 
E BROOKLYN D SCIENCES 
TH INSTITUTE OF ARTS AN 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
PENNY PACKETS OF SEED FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN 
MARIGOLD 
Directions for Planting 
Date: May I to June 1. 
Place: Garden beds or boxes. Marigolds like sun. 
Manner: Scatter the seed in the drill (row), and when 
the plants are 3 inches high, transplant so plants are 6 
inches apart. 
Depth: Y% inch. 
The demand was so much greater than we expected that the 
envelopes and seeds initially prepared were soon exhausted. 
After helping stir up a greater interest than ever before in home 
gardens, it seemed as if some follow-up system should be em- 
ployed. In many cases, the school influence covers this, some- 
times it does not, so a card was prepared reading as follows: 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
HOME GARDEN RECORD 
Name 
School No, Grade Principal 
Garden in yard or box? 
Class of exhibit: Date: 

