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cooperation of pupils and parents. One kind of fruit calls for 

 study along one line while another emphasizes another line. 



With one. for instance.it is pruning, with another it is spraying 

 with still another, winter protection is the important problem. 



The writer is aware of the fact that many will think these sug- 

 gestions very theoretical but not practical when applied. They 

 are suggested because they are practical. Two years ago the 

 writer went with a class of boys and girls to a vineyard where 

 enough cuttings were secured to grow about fifty good vines in 

 our school-garden. In the spring about a dozen of these will be 

 planted in the school-garden and cared for as suggested and the 

 remainder will be given to pupils to plant in their home gardens. 

 Arrangements have already been made by which we will be able 

 to have all the cuttings we wish if we will properly trim the vines 

 in the early spring. In this way we hope to secure at least two 

 hundred cuttings for our school-garden. These will be from 

 good varieties as the Concord, Worden, Moore's Early, Niagara, 

 Delaware, and Pocklington. We have a little school-garden 

 monev on hand which may be used in part to buy a few new 

 varieties to test their value in this climate. This work is practi- 

 cal, it leads somewhere, it furnishes a basis for the best of school 

 work in that it is full of problems that are closely related to life. 

 More than this pupils are given a chance to do things with their 

 hands while their minds are busy. It is very much like what 

 thev will have to do when they grow up. They will have a 

 motive in going to books if this work is handled in the right way. 

 They will have something to think about in the home that relates 

 to the work done in school. Parents out of their fund of experience 

 will be able to help their children with their school work 

 and possibly they will be stirred up to study better ways of doing 

 things. It should make the farm a more interesting place for the 

 farmer's boys and girls. 



