TALKS TO BE GIVEN AT SCHOOLS 
All Grades. — How to make a garden and prepare for the Annual 
Children’s Garden Exhibit, to be held at the Botanic Garden, 
September 29 and 30, 1916. 
Nature Stories for Children 
The following talks, illustrated with lantern slides and plant 
material, are given on Saturday afternoons at the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden and are open to all children on request. Tickets are 
issued for these talks; only seventy tickets are printed for each. 
Send for tickets one week in advance; one ticket admits only to 
the lecture of the date appearing on the face of the ticket. 
Schedule of Stories 
1916 
April 29— How to make a garden Ellen Eddy Shaw 
May 6— How to make Brooklyn more beautiful Jean Cross 
May 13 — Rubber, a very useful plant. Ellen Eddy Shaw 
May 20— Sugar, and how it is obtained Jean Cross 
May 27 — The wild flowers now in bloom. Dr. Alfred L. Gundersen 
There may be other talks on botanical subjects and nature 
study which teachers desire, and which do not appear on the 
above list. Such talks, as far as possible, will be given on appli- 
cation by the teacher. All applications should be in writing on 
cards provided by the Garden for this purpose. These cards read 
as follows: 
School : Grade No. of pupils 
Address 
Date of request 
The Assistant Curator of Public Instruction 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
I wish to bring my class, as indicated above, to the Botanic 
Garden on date at hour 
for purposes checked below: 
1. Talk No for Elementary School Classes 
2. A special talk on 
3. Special work in the plant houses. 
4. Visit the conservatories under guidance. 
5. Visit the out-of-doors collections under guidance. 
6. Visit the Japanese Garden. 
School telephone Teacher 
(Additional copies of this card may be had on application) 
Ellen Eddy Shaw. 
