28 THE NATURE-STUDY REl'IEW [i, i, jan. 1905 



elected agriculture and nature-study at the North Carolina College 

 of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. At the University of Tennes- 

 see summer school over two hundred elected agriculture and 

 nature-study ; and at the Hampton ( Va.) Normal and Agricultural 

 Institute over five hundred teachers studied the same. It may 

 be said that the same number of teachers were students in agri- 

 culture at the various summer schools and teachers' institutes 

 throughout the South. 



The importance of agriculture as a required study is intensified 

 by giving the study a regular place in the daily school program. 

 A text-book is used ; experiments are performed ; tramps to 

 brooks, fields, and farms are made ; essays are written on agri- 

 cultural subjects as a part of the regular work. Of course it 

 will be seen that all this contributes to making the work both 

 profitable and interesting to the pupil and teacher alike. While 

 the work is new, the experiment now being made promises to be 

 of great importance to the schools throughout the South. It is 

 interesting parents in school work who have heretofore been un- 

 interested in education. It is dignifying farm life, and it is 

 destined to help the fields, and flocks, and herds of the South 

 where the great wealth lies. 



SCHOOL-GARDENS 



[Editorial Note. — School-gardens have in recent years be- 

 come a prominent and valuable part of the nature-study movement, 

 and hence it is within the province of this journal to consider them 

 as a phase of nature-study. It is not planned to publish a long 

 series of descriptions of gardens which are in all essentials similar, 

 and there will be no attempt at imitating the elaborate illustrated 

 and detailed reports which are often published principally for local 

 distribution. On the contrary, we will select for publication 

 those original suggestions which seem to be applicable to any 

 school-garden, and which will tend to encourage the develop- 

 ment of new gardens. But we will not aim entirely at the prac- 

 tical problem of making a garden which interests the pupils and 

 their friends and looks attractive in photographs. So far as the 

 mere practical side of gardening is concerned there are hundreds 

 of successful school-gardens in the United States ; but in general 



