guidance. Large groups of children, or even small groups, may 
not go unattended through the green houses or the Japanese 
Garden. We wish the children of this city to feel that this 
Garden is not a playground, but it is a place where boys and girls 
come to receive something in education which they can obtain 
in no other place. 
There seems to be an opinion current that the larger the num- 
bers of children flockingto an institution, the greater the work must 
be. We do not feel this to be true. We purposely limit the num- 
ber of classes we are willing to take in a group. We do not be- 
lieve you can educate in masses, and so after children have had 
their lecture here on a special subject they are divided into 
groups, these groups having not more than fifteen children in 
each. In this way the fifteen can gather round a teacher and 
really learn something about what they see. If the group is too 
large, the benefit of our work is lost. A large group of children 
was listening to a talk at the entrance of the Japanese Garden 
and were told of the significance of the Moon View House. Later 
when the children wrote a composition at school upon the Jap- 
anese Garden, one boy said that the Moon View House was a 
place where the moon sits at night. This is typical of what chil- 
dren absorb from mass teaching. We suggest that no school 
send more than one hundred children at any one time. One 
school sent one grade to all the talks of that grade during one 
spring. We felt that having the same group of children once a 
week for four weeks was worth a great deal both to the children 
and to us. Another school felt it more important and helpful to 
send different classes and during that spring this school, P. S. 
43, sent classes to hear all of our talks. The method of using the 
Botanic Garden to the greatest advantage is, of course, a prob- 
lem for the individual school. 
The following topics are our subjects chosen for spring 
and fall work : 
FALL SUBJECTS 
Grades 4a and 4r 
1. Cultivations of plants by seeds, slips, runners, etc. (Green- 
house) . 
2. What plants need for growth. (Experiments). 
3. Plant variations in the hot, cold and temperate countries. 
(Lantern slides and specimen plants). 
4. The cultivation of rice in China and Japan. (Lantern slides). 
5. How boys and girls can help make Brooklyn a more beauti- 
ful city. (Lantern slides). 
Grades 5a and 5b 
6. How to plant bulbs for winter bloom. (Demonstration). 
7. Plant foods raised in the United States. (Lantern slides). 
8. How nature disperses her seeds. (Demonstration). 
9. Useful plant products. (Lantern slides). 
