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THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



[2:2 — FEBRUARY, 1906 



place or under any particular circumstances. It is rather to suggest 

 the close relationship existing between these two subjects when they 

 come to the child in a natural way, hoping that the reader may enter 

 into the spirit of this kind of work and make his own application to 

 his own particular problem in his own particular field. 



THE SCHOOL-GARDEN AT BOWES VILLE, CANADA 



BY E. A. HOWES 



In order to give a complete report of this garden we must go back, 

 for its inception, to the generous grant made by Sir William 



" The children's out-door laborator) — their school-garden." 



Macdonald, of Montreal, to promote school consolidation and the 

 establishment of school-gardens in Eastern Canada. The money 

 was expended for the purpose under the direction of James W. 

 Robertson, then Dominion Commissioner of Agriculture and now 

 devoting to the interests of rural school education that energy and tact 

 which have caused Professor Robertson to be regarded as a personal 

 friend by every Canadian agriculturist. A prospective principal for 

 a proposed consolidated school, and a prospective travelling instructor 

 in nature-study were selected from each of the five eastern provinces 

 and given a series of short courses at Chicago, Cornell, Columbia and 

 Clark Universities and the Ontario Agricultural College. The writer 



