TEACHERS’ NUMBER 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
LEAFLETS 
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
Series IV Brooklyn, N. Y., October 11, 1916. No. 12 
TALKS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSES 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden here announces its fourth series 
of talks and lessons for schools, to be given October 16th to No- 
vember 17th. These talks, as those preceding, have been planned 
to correlate with the New York City course of study in Nature 
Study and Geography. 
It might be of interest to compare the course of study in these 
subjects and the work planned by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
since our work is arranged to supplement that done in the class- 
room. The lessons given at the Garden are of such a nature that 
they may be given in any class-room with the simplest kind of 
apparatus. After the work required in the syllabus for each 
grade has been taken up, the talks and lessons offered at the 
Botanic Garden will prove advantageous. 
Under Nature Study in the syllabus for 4b these subjects are 
suggested for study: 
“Seedless plants: ferns, mosses, mushrooms, lichens, 
seaweeds. Parts; color; spores, treated in an elementary 
way. 
“Cultivation of plants. Review of the needs of plants. 
Propagating plants by seeds, by slips, by runners; growth 
of roots of slip in water. Life histories of maple, oak, 
strawberry, apple, peach, plum; seed, seedling’, root, 
stem, leaves, flowers, fruit; methods of propagating new 
plants. 
“Forms of stems: erect, prostrate, climbing by ten- 
drils, twining by stem or petiole; why plants seek erect 
position; underground stems (potato) and bulbs (onion); 
uses of stored nourishment to plants.’’ 
We offer for Grade 4b the following talks and lessons: 
/ . Common ferns for your homes and class-rooms. 
2. How to raise plants in different ways. 
