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attract that hereafter this will be a permanent feature of the 

 State Fair, and all the schools of the state will be represented. 



Much attention is given in some schools to the planting and 

 the care of trees. Two years ago, some sugar maples were 

 planted along the side walk in front of the Normal School. 

 The neighbors continued the line until it reached the corner. 

 In 1909, more trees were planted on Arbor Day. This year, 

 the Park Commission has given us 36 trees, including sugar 

 maples, pin oaks and ash trees for planting in the school yards. 

 In addition, tulip trees have been purchased. This we hope to 

 make the state tree. 



We have learned that gardening vitalizes the school work 

 and fills it with interest; that the spirit of industry thus devel- 

 oped is carried into the schoolroom; that the children who have 

 learned the lesson of making flowers and vegetables grow where 

 nothing grew before, have gained a valuable lesson in life, ap- 

 plicable not only to plants. There is no question as to its mak- 

 ing better citizens of them. 



THE EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 

 AND ITS RELATION TO GARDENING AND NATURE-STUDY 



The problem of presenting museum material to the children 

 in the schoolroom, just at the time when it is needed to illus- 

 trate school work, has been met in the city of St. Louis by the 

 establishment of a unique institution, a traveling museum, 

 known as the Educational Museum of the St. Louis Public 

 Schools. 



This institution consists of a display room, wherein are ex- 

 hibited about one thousand (1000) collections of various as- 

 sorted materials for the teachers' inspection and study; a pack- 

 ing department in which from ten to twenty duplicates of each 

 collection are boxed ready for delivery to the school; a Teach- 

 ers' Library of some seven thousand (7000) volumes ranging 

 from reference books on all museum subjects to pedagogical 

 works of all varieties; a department of educational exhibits, 

 showing work in manual training, domestic science, drawing 

 literature, the sciences, etc., from foreign countries, and our 

 own school work from Kindergarden to Teachers College; 

 and last, but most important, a delivery system, consisting of 

 two wagons which are kept busy delivering museum material 



