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History of School-Gardens. A pamphlet, free, with the title 

 " Progress of Agricultural Education, 1903," is a recent reprint 

 from the 1903 Annual Report of the office of the Experiment Sta- 

 tions, U. S. Department of Agriculture. It deals with the prog- 

 ress of agricultural education in colleges and in schools of elemen- 

 tary and secondary grade. Ten pages and eight excellent plates 

 of full-page size are devoted to school-gardens, giving a very 

 useful general history and survey of the school-garden movement 

 in all parts of the United States and the insular possessions. A 

 list of elementary books and pamphlets on nature-study and 

 school-gardening, previously published as Circular No. 52, is here 

 reprinted. 



Some Children's Pets. Under this title a recent bulletin of the 

 Northern State Normal School, Marquette, Mich., outlines some 

 nature-study lessons on common animal pets. The lessons are 

 designed to run through the fall term of the first, third, fifth and 

 seventh grades. There is no apparent reason for the arrangement 

 according to alternate grades ; on the contrary, many schools do 

 similar work best by concentrating in the first and second grades. 



Rhode Island l ' Nature Guard." No. ^3< "Tracks in the 

 Snow," and No. 34, " A Talk about the Weather," No. 35, " How 

 to Grow Corn," and No. 36, " Seed Travelers," are the latest addi- 

 tions in the interesting correspondence series conducted by Pro- 

 fessor Card of the Rhode Island College. 



Nature Collections. Bulletin No. 134 (June, 1904) of the On- 

 tario Agricultural College, the second leaflet from Macdonald 

 Institute, gives useful hints on making collections for schools. 

 It was prepared by the late Dr. Muldrew. It gives suggestions 

 for collecting (1) nature notes, (2) living animals and plants, (3) 

 pressed plants and leaves, (4) grains and grasses, (5) seeds and 

 dry fruits, (6) specimens of wood, (7) insects, (8) historical 

 objects. 



Key to Woody Plants in Winter. A pamphlet with this title 

 has been recently published by K. M. YViegand and F. W. Fox- 

 worthy of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. (Price, 25 cents.) 

 It includes the genera of trees and shrubs found wild or in cultiva- 

 tion in the state of New York, but it also applies to the neighbor- 

 ing states. It appears to be a useful supplement to such a book 



