this summer to inspect it and offer helpful suggestions, should 
write to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and make a formal request. 
When exhibits must be brought: All exhibits, both those of 
schools as well as those of individuals, must be brought to the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the afternoon of September 23rd, or 
by 10 o’clock on the morning of the 24th. The exhibits will be 
judged on the afternoon of the 24th, and will then be on exhibi- 
tion for the public from 3 to to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of the 
24th, and from 10 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon of the 
25th. After 4 o’clock of this day, exhibitors may remove their ex- 
hibits. Prizes will be distributed on Saturday afternoon , October 
9th, at 3 o’clock. Silver and bronze medals will be awarded as 
first and second prizes for individual exhibits. A bronze statue 
of Victory is the prize for the school making the best exhibit as a 
whole. This prize is to be competed for annually until one school 
wins it three times, when it will become the property of that 
school. A new prize will then be offered. This statue is now in 
possession of P. S. 152, this school having won it last fall, at the 
first annual Children’s Garden Exhibit. 
Ellen Eddy Shaw. 
NOTICES 
The Laboratory Building is open to the public daily, from 9 
a. in. till 5 p. m. Conservatories open April 1-October 1, 10 a. m.- 
4:30 p. in.; October 1-April 1, 10 a. m.-4 p. m. 
During the present season, until further notice, entrance to 
the Garden may be had only at the laboratory building on Wash- 
ington Avenue, opposite Montgomery Street, on permission from 
the office. This temporary regulation is made necessary by ex- 
tensive grading operations and the construction of new paths 
throughout the grounds. 
The Garden may be reached by Flatbush Avenue trolley to 
Malbone Street; Franklin Avenue and Lorimer Street trolleys to 
Washington Avenue; St. John’s Place trolley to Sterling Place; 
Ninth Avenue, Sixteenth Avenue, LTnion Street, Greenpoint and 
Smith Street trolleys to Prospect Park Plaza and Union Street, and 
Brighton Beach elevated to Consumers’ Park Station. (The ele- 
vated train stops only when the conductor is notified in advance.) 
A docent will meet parties by appointment and conduct them 
through the Garden. This service is free to members of the 
Botanic Garden and to teachers with classes; to others there is a 
nominal charge of 25 cents an hour for parties of less than three, 
and 10 cents a person per hour for parties of three or more. 
Current numbers of Leaflets are free to all who wish them. 
Back series, complete, 50c. each; single numbers, 5c. each. 
The Leaflets are published bi-weekly from April to June, and September 
to October, inclusive, by The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Wash- 
ington Avenue and Montgomery Street. Brooklyn, N Y. 
Application made for entry to the second class of mail matter, at Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Telephone: 6173 Prospect. 
Mail address: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
