Once again, the boys in the Greenhouse Program at Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry are offering hand-decorated wreaths and poinsettias for sale. Orders are due by Nov. 28 and the wreaths should be ready by Dec. 10.

This marks the eighth annual Christmas fundraiser for the boys in the after-school Greenhouse Program at the residential treatment center. As it did last year for the first time, Sprainbrook Nursery in Scarsdale has been growing larger-sized poinsettias for the boys to sell.

Proceeds from the sale help pay for gardening activities in the Work Appreciation for Youth program. Each year, the boys plant and tend an organic vegetable garden, attend cooking classes, grow herbs for sale and maintain a wide variety of plants in the greenhouse at Children's Village. The WAY program allows the boys to learn job skills and earn money for their work.

Children's Village can house more than 300 troubled, abused and neglected boys on its campus. Barbara Fischer, a master gardener and certified horticultural therapist, works with the boys two or three afternoons a week in the greenhouse.

This summer, Claire Cornish, Fischer's colleague who helps run the program, provided fresh produce grown by the boys to Geordane's grocery store in Irvington.

"We sold some plants there, too," Fischer says. "This new venture engendered great good will plus almost $500 for the program."

The boys also grow plants for annual plant sales held by the Dobbs Ferry Garden Club and the Native Plant Center in Valhalla.

This year, red and white poinsettias in 4.5-inch plastic pots cost $8, and plants in 6-inch foil-covered clay pots cost $12. The 14-inch wreaths go for between $18 and $22, depending on how they are decorated. Each wreath is signed by the boy who created it.

For more information and to get a copy of the order form, call Fischer at the greenhouse at 914-693-0600, Ext. 3138 or e-mail her at BFischer@childrensvillage.org.

The completed form and a personal check (made payable to "The Children's Village - Village Store") should be sent to Barbara Fischer, PO Box 85, Armonk, NY 10504.

Fischer says she will do her best to accommodate late orders.

Reach Bill Cary at wcary@lohud.com or 914-696-8554.