Admission to the Exhibit: Each exhibitor receives a button, 
which admits him to the Exhibit at anytime during- the 24th, 25th, 
and 26th of September. 
Award of Prizes: The exhibitors to whom prizes are awarded 
will receive a card saying “Premium” on it. These cards are to 
be brought to the Botanic Garden on a day specified and the real 
prizes will be awarded. The decisions will be made by a commit- 
tee of judges. 
The trophy for Class C will be awarded each year to the school 
whose pupils in the aggregate have the best exhibits. Any school 
holding this trophy for three successive years.wins it.'permanently. 
A new trophy will then be offered. 
Aid from the Brooklyn: Botanic Garden: Any boy or girl desir- 
ing someone from the Botanic Garden to visit his backyard 
garden this summer to inspect it and offer helpful suggestions, 
should write to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and make a formal 
request. 
CARE OF THE GARDEN 
Over 5,000 young people have bought penny packets of seeds 
this year from the Botanic Garden, and with these have planted 
gardens in their yards or in boxes. Therefore bend all your ener- 
gies toward making your garden a success. 
All summer long a garden needs care. Keep it clean of weeds. 
Be sure to pull the weeds out root and all. If the roots remain in 
the ground, the weeds may grow again. If the garden spot is kept 
clean, pests are not so likely to appear. Another very important 
thing to remember is this: keep the soil worked up between the 
rows of plants. Use a weeder, a trowel, or a pointed stick for 
this work. As the soil is loosened, it forms what gardeners call 
a dust mulch. This mulch acts as a blanket to hold the moisture 
in the ground. At all times water is travelling up through the 
sub-soil to the surface of the ground. If the course of the water 
is not interrupted at this point, it will evaporate off into the air. 
The dust mulch prevents this surface evaporation, by checking 
the up-coming moisture in its course. Thus the water is kept in 
the area where the roots are. Mulching takes the place of watering 
except in long dry seasons. Do not forget to stir the soil in the 
garden beds. If it becomes necessary to water the garden, water 
the plants thoroughly close to the ground, rather than the tops of 
the plants. Plants take in most of the water they need through 
their roots and not through their leaves, and when just the mere 
surface of the soil is watered, then the roots of the plants tend to 
develop near the surface of the ground. But when the watering 
is done thoroughly, so that more than the upper layers of the soil 
are wet, the roots will strike down where water is more apt to be 
found in time of drought. If the roots and rootlets develop near 
the surface, as a result of watering the wrong way, their supply of 
water during a drought will soon fall, and the plants will wilt and 
die. 
