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<il winter rains. An unbroken sweep of masses of seaweed and kelp throw up 

 breakers lines up, disperses and lines up 

 again. Sea gulls wing their strong 

 flight overhead; shy sandpipers and 

 sanderlings flit before you 



temoorary barriers forcing you to pursue 

 a devious route. A dazzling sweep of 

 moving waters, the blue glory of the 



tangled 



summer sky, the shimmering stretches 

 of wet sand, the ceaseless music of the 

 surf, the clear, plaintive call of the wild 

 sea birds — these are your lasting impres- 

 sions of that wonderful drive from The 

 Point of Tines to Del Mar and back 

 again. The words wherewith you are 

 wont to describe wdiat you see fail you 

 in the presence of the illimitable beauty 

 of this care free solitude of skv and sea. 



"THE WHITE LADY." 



'There in the mouth of this cave, filling the 

 entire entrance, stands the mystic white lady." 



MOVEMENT FOR SCHOOL GARDENS 

 GROWING. 



The movement for school gardens in 

 the large cities is growing so rapidly in 

 all parts of the country, according to the 

 officers of the International Children's 

 School Farm League, that there is a 

 dearth of trained teachers to take charge 

 of the work in many cities which are 

 read\- to establish such gardens. To 

 supply instructors for children's gardens, 

 the League has lent its encouragement 

 to a special course on school gardens to 

 be given during the coming summer at 

 the New York LTniversitv Summer 

 School on University Heights. The 

 course, which will be under the direction 

 of Henry Griscom Parsons, will be par- 

 ticularly designed to train teachers in 

 "the methods of preparing and conduct- 

 ing gardens for the education of chil- 

 dren." The large Schwab garden at the 

 Lhuversity will be used for field work, 

 and a building nearby devoted to an in- 

 door laboratory where the phenomena of 

 plants, soils and insects in their relation- 

 ship to horticulture and general natural 

 science can be studied. 



The method of instruction, according 

 to Mr. Parsons, will be strictly practical. 

 Each student will be expected to prepare 

 and care for a typical -arden plot such 

 as the child would have. The class as 

 a wnole will cultivate the observation 

 plots showing typical weeds, or grains or 

 other staple products which are not 

 raised by the children in their own plots. 

 Moreover, the teachers will be shown 

 how to make all of the apparatus which 

 they will use in their simple experiments. 

 The class will also be given observation 



