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periments with seeds procured from the museum specimens; 

 of home and school gardens developed as a result of this in- 

 terest; of how these gardens led on in the most natural way 

 to the study of troublesome weeds, of injurious and beneficial 

 insects, of birds and their place in the economy of nature, of 

 atmospheric and climatic conditions, and so on. 



In this connection the school gardens and greenhouses of 

 the Teachers College are proving of great practical value, the 

 young teachers thus being prepared to give sympathetic, in- 

 telligent assistance to their future pupils when this love of na- 



GBEEN HOUSE AM) SCHOOL GARDENS OF THE TEACHERS COLLEGE, 



ST. LOUIS, MO. 



ture begins to assert itself in the form ot gardening and plant 

 study. 



Incidentally also this interest reacts to the benefit of the 

 Museum in the replacing of worn specimens and bringing in of 

 new material by the pupils, such as the blossoms, seeds, fibers 

 and entire plants of hemp, flax, sorghum, sugar cane, rice, etc.,. 

 grown in the home and school gardens, and specimens of min- 

 eral and plant life procured during field trips, as a result of the 

 closer observations to which the children had been stimulated. 



As to the variety of material, of course the scope of such 



