90 COMPANION TO TROPICAL READERS 



The main objects are 



(1) Practical illustration of the agricultural principles 

 taught in the schoolroom. 



(2) Development and creation, if need be of the 

 child's interest in gardening and nature study. 



(3) The teaching of facts and training in practices 

 likely to be of direct agricultural value to the child later. 



I. PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF PRINCIPLES OF 



AGRICULTURE 



Attention is drawn throughout the chapters of the 

 Tropical Reader to many of the principles on which 

 successful cultivation is based. The School Garden 

 will be the means of giving the children an opportu- 

 nity of putting these into practice, with the result 

 that the lessons taught will be better understood, and 

 will be more likely to be of permanent value. When- 

 ever it is possible the experiments should be carried 

 out in the School Garden, and in many cases this can 

 be done. A list of those experiments specially suitable 

 is given below. Each has been described fully in an 

 earlier part of this Companion. 



Experiments and Practical Work 



Roots, I. 



10. Development of roots from radicle of bean seed. 



11. Development of roots from radicle of corn seed. 



Roots, II. 



12. Storage of food in roots. 

 14. Necessity for roots. 



16. Tuberous roots and tubers. 



Stems and Shoots, I. 



17. Food solution travels up stem from roots. 



18. Food solution travels up through woody portion 

 of stem. 



