progrp:ss in agricultural education. 575 



Clubs, the total inciiilxTsliij) of wliicli incliuk's ovci" IS, Odd pupils in 

 the pul>lic schools. Kach meiuher is reached throu<;h the Junior 

 Naturalist Monthly and hy correspondence throuj^h the school- 

 teachers. A little over a year ago the bureau decided to ])ut this 

 vast machinery into operation foi- the improvement of school jrrounds. 



The State supei'intendent of public instruction and other inHuential 

 persons have lent their support to the movement. The result has 

 been the awakening of a general interest in the improvement of 

 school grounds and the actual realization of much better conditions in 

 many rural and city schools. Dui'ing the past year 2, loo children 

 wrote to the supervisor of the bureau telling what the}- had done for 

 the bettermer.t of 475 school premises. 



In Rochester the etiorts of the Women's Educational and Industrial 

 Union for the improvement of school grounds antedated the efforts of 

 the bureau in this direction one year. Many of the school children 

 undertook to improve their surroundings. (PI. XXX, tig. 1.) The 

 Rochester Post-Express sums up the results in the following paragraph: 



Green turf has taken the place of bare clayey banks, and shrubs and flowers grow 

 where the l)urdook and tomato can flourished in days gone by. The windows of 

 the schools are tilled wilh ferns and flowering j)lants, and the interest taken in the 

 school yard has extended to the home surroundings — to the betterment of whole 

 neighborhoods. 



Similar work lias 1)een done in a luimljei* of schools in Cleveland, 

 Ohio, under the auspices of the Home Gardening Association (PI. 

 XXX. rig. L>); in Washington, 1). C. (PI. XXX, rig. 3): in Detroit, 

 and in mnnerous other cities. In most cases the work has been accom- 

 plished with so little ostentation that outside attention has not been 

 attracted, but its inriuence has been none the less elevating and helpful 

 not only to the pupils but also to the homes of the pupils. 



FLOWKK AND VEGETAHLK GARDENS AS SOURCES FOR NATURE-STUDY 

 MATERIAL AND OUTDOOR MANUAL TRAINJNG. 



NOKTH ATLANTIC STATES. 



In the Noith Atlantic States Massachusetts and Connecticut have 

 made greatest progress in the establishment of school gardens. In 

 Massachusetts Boston continues to be the center of the school-gardtMi 

 movement. Here the work was started twehc years ago in connection 

 with the (reorge Putnam (Ji-annnar School (PI. XXXI, rig. 1), and has 

 been continued with marked success up to th(> present time. For ten 

 years the work was conrined to native wild (lowers and ferns, but since 

 1900 vegetable gardens have been made a prominent feature of the 

 work. 



About three years ago the Boston Normal School began similar 

 woi'k with vegetables on a vacant lot at the corner of Dartmouth 

 street and Warren avenue. At this place boys from the Kice Training 



