Grades 7a and 7b 
17. Agricultural products of the United States. (Demonstration). 
18. What plants mean to the world’s commerce. (Lantern slides). 
19. The life history of a tree. (Demonstration and slides). 
20. Forestry. (Lantern slides). 
TO BE GIVEN AT SCHOOLS 
All Grades 
How to make a garden and prepare for the Annual Chil- 
dren’s Garden Exhibit, to be held at the Botanic Garden. 
This season’s fall talks will be given from October 1 to No- 
vember 9, 1917. The spring talks of 1918 are listed for April 15 to 
May 29. Cards should be made out and sent to the Garden at least 
one week before a given class wishes its appointment. Such cards 
may be obtained by writing to Ellen Eddy Shaw, Curator of 
Elementary Instruction, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Ellen Eddy Shaw. 
NOTICES 
The Garden is open free to the public daily, from 8 a. m. un- 
til sunset; on Sundays and holidays at 10 a. m. The Laboratory 
Building, containing the library, herbarium, and offices, is open 
daily, from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. The Conservatories are open April 
1-October 1, 10 a. m.-4:30 p. m.; October 1-April 1, 10 a. m.-4 p. m. 
The Garden maybe reached by Flatbush Ave. trolley to Malbone 
St.; Franklin Ave., Lorimer St., and Tompkins Ave. trolleys to 
Washington Ave.; St. John’s Place and Rogers Ave. trolleys to 
Sterling Place; Vanderbilt Ave., Sixteenth Ave., Union St., Green- 
point, and Smith St. trolleys to Prospect Park Plaza and Union St., 
and Brighton Beach elevated to Consumers’ Park Station. (The ele- 
vated trains stop 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 weekly or biweekly from April to June, and 
September to October, inclusive, by The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
at Washington Avenue and Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Telephone: 6173 Prospect. 
Mail address: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
