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organize efficient systems of municipal home gardening. In other 

 words the success of the present system will cause it to grow as 

 naturally as a plant into a "school for school-gardening, "whose 

 undergraduates, the teachers taking the present courses and the 

 new ones to be provided, will be serving the city with steadily 

 increasing efficiency, while its graduates will be leaders in the 

 school-garden-movement. 



Our experience so far, has certainly shown the practical success 

 of this system of cooperation between the Department of Botany 

 and the school authorities in a striking manner, and it is believed 

 that it represents the extreme of efficiency and offers a guarantee of 

 the success of the school-garden movement. 



The supporters of the school-garden movement cannot too often 

 remind themselves that introduction of gardening is nothing, 

 success of gardening is ever^^thing. We must try to avoid the 

 perils so plainly indicated by the experience in other lines, and 

 which are even now appearing in the garden-movement. The 

 present introduction of compulsory agricultural education in this 

 state, without making provision for enough trained teachers, is in 

 fact a frightful example of this menace. 



Whether school-gardening persists or disappears depends on one 

 thing and that alone, the crop. 



News and Notes 



Report of the Spring Activities of the South Side Section of the 

 Chicago Nature-Study Club 



The annual meeting of this section was held in the Bowen High 

 School, April 12, 19 13. At this meeting the officers for the year 

 were elected and plans for the spring excursions announced. 



Beside the meetings for Bird-Study in Jackson Park every 

 Thursday afternoon during April and May the section has enjoyed 

 three very successfrd trips to neighboring localities for the study of 

 flowers and trees. 



The first of these trips. May loth, to Fort Sheridan was attended 

 by twenty-three members who most thoroughly enjoyed the walk 

 down McComiack Glen to the Lake. White trilHums and violets 

 were found in great abundance. 



