dil ees 
Class C. School Display—One prize, a trophy, to the school making the 
st display 
Class D. Individual Garden Display—First and second prizes will be 
awarded for the greatest variety of flowers raised by one child. 
The prizes offered are first and second individual prizes, and 
a trophy for the best school display. The individual prizes are 
medals; the first, a silver one; the second, bronze. The design, 
(fig. 12) is the same on both. The center is a representation of 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden emblem, used on the front page of 
the cover of the Recorp. Upon the back of each medal is en- 
graved the name of the winner, the class, and date. The trophy 
(fig. 11) is a bronze figure, bir Villanis, of Victory, trumpet in 
hand, bearing a branch of the victor’s laurel. This trophy is to 
be competed for each year until one school has won it three times ; 
then it will become the property of that school, and a new trophy 
will be offered. 
Ellen Eddy Shaw 
THE JAPANESE GARDEN 
In an address before the Brooklyn Woman’s Club, January 26, 
1914, the director of the Garden mentioned that, among other 
things, the Garden hoped some day to have a Japanese garden. 
As a result of this statement, and through the good offices of Mrs. 
William P. Hamilton, the Garden authorities were placed in com- 
Spgs ain with the then Japanese Consul-General at New York, 
Tr. J. Iijima. Mr. lijima at once became very much interested 
in the plan, and put the Garden in touch with Mr. T. Shiota, the 
foremost Japanese landscape architect now in America. Mr. 
Shiota prepared two plans for gardens at different locations on 
the shore of the Garden lake. One of these plans was adopted, 
and through the very generous offer of the chairman of the com- 
mittee on Botanic Garden to finance the undertaking, the Garden 
was enabled to enter into a contract with Mr. Shiota. 
Work on the garden began on May 17, and has progressed 
rapidly all summer, involving the construction, by Japanese work- 
men, of a tea house, a summer house, a temple, a torii, a series of 

