80 THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [ 4 : 3 -mak., 1<3 o8 



Plans are being made for the establishment of an arboretum of 

 trees and shrubs which will serve as a propagating center for stu- 

 dents who will take up landscape gardening, arboriculture, horti- 

 culture and elements of forestry. The nurseries will also supply- 

 trees and shrubs for the improvement of school grounds. 



A laboratory will be equipped at Oakland School, a manual 

 training and domestic science center, where the children will learn 

 something of the air we breathe, the chemistry of the water we 

 drink and soil beneath our feet. Simple exercises will be given 

 which will make the children familiar with the most important 

 chemical elements of great importance in gardening, horticulture 

 and agriculture. The students in domestic science will be inter- 

 ested in studying the compounds which make up the plant 

 structure and which have been organized in the life-processes of 

 the plants, into starch, sugar, oil, protein, fiber, cellulose; and 

 furnish food for man and animals. 



The adaptation of roots, stems and leaves to the soil, shedding 

 moisture and arrangement to sunlight afford some of the most 

 interesting problems in nature-studv. 



The color, form and arrangement of flowers in their adaptation 

 to insect enemies and friends, the gradual transition from flower 

 to fruit, the death of one generation giving birth to another, pro- 

 vides a series of observations which can not be anything but 

 inspiring. 



