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know that when carbohydrates are heated in a closed place until they 

 decompose they break up into carbon, water, and other substances 

 liquid and gaseous — will see that a flame is a burning gas, and that a 

 solid, as carbon, burns without a flame — and will be able to form an 

 intelligent conception of many processes in nature and the arts which 

 would otherwise be quite inexplicable. 



John Brittain. 

 University of New Brunswick, 

 Fredericton, N. B. 



SCHOOL-GARDENS 



BY F. W. SHATTUCK 

 Secretary of ths School-Garden Association, Boston 



" School-gardens should be laid out neither to draw the attention 

 of passersby nor to give great returns, but to instruct." Keeping 

 this in view the School-Garden Association has provided a list of 

 seeds to illustrate distinct types such as bulbs, roots, vines, branch- 

 ing and heading tops among vegetables, and flowers that climb, grow 

 in spikes, clusters, or on single stems, that can be used to form 

 borders, and to relieve by their brilliant colors: 



To place the ieeds within the reach of all, they are furnished in 

 collections of five packets in an envelope at the rate of one cent per 

 packet. In this way all the pupils of a school can be provided with 

 at least one packet of seed without imposing a burden on anyone. 



The interest in the school-garden movement is becoming wide- 

 spread, communications coming in from nearly all the states and 

 provinces of the United States and Canada. While this interest has 

 been worked up by means of addresses in educational conventions, 

 articles in the teacher's journals, by circular letters and by the for- 

 mation of school-garden clubs, home garden associations and the like, 

 it has become apparent that systematic effort must be put forth in 

 order to secure any permanent results of value. It is an easy matter 

 to arouse the interest of children and induce them to plant vegetable 

 and flower seeds, but unless their efforts are sustained through the 

 season and encouraged by generous recognition and some rewards, 

 the results will not be substantial. If. however, there is an active 



