MOVEMENT FOR SCHOOL GARDENS GROWING. 



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A CONSIDERATION OF INSECTS AND WEEDS. 



the educational benefit from living' with 

 nature's processes. The teacher who 

 only shows children how to make thing's 

 grow, fails, according to Mr. Parsons, to 

 reap the largest benefit from her work. 

 Teachers who avail themselves of such 

 a course as is offered will hold the in- 

 terest of their pupils by being able to 



show them many of the reasons why 

 things grow, why certain insects are nec- 

 essary and others hurtful to plant life, 

 and to show the real meaning of soil, 

 rain, sunlight, water, temperature, not 

 merely to plant life, but to themselves. 

 Air. Parsons believes that a few simple 

 experiments with plants can be made 



PREPARING SPECIAL APPARATUS IN THE WORKSHOP. 



