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boys. Since, as Superintendent F. D. Bo3"nton said recently, "Our 

 prisons are houses of detention for energn.- gone wrong," some 

 concrete business enterprise for boys and girls in the community might 

 decrease the number of jails and reform schools. The garden with a 

 good market will help. 



8. Wild gardens. In some schools the children have ver\* interesting 

 wild gardens. A piece of ground has been selected for this purpose, 

 the soil enriched with earth from the wood, and as the years pass the 

 children have added to the number of wild plants. Wood plants should 

 not be transplanted while in blossom. If the teacher will take her pupils 

 to the woods some daj^ in spring and mark the wild plants by means of a 

 piece of wood strong enough to resist the storms of spring and stimmer 

 the children may dig up the soil in this place and in the fall the root of 

 the wild plant may be obtained. One school in this State is tr^-ing to 

 have specimens of all the wild flora in the vicinit}'. TJie children sJiould 

 always be cautioned against exterminating wild flowers. 



9. Old-fashioned flowers. The children of the Ithaca schools enjoyed 

 laying aside a part of a piece of grovmd for a grandmother's garden. In 

 this were grown the following: 



Ice Plant Venus' Looking Glass (blue) 



Marigold FenzHa dianthiflora 



Pans}' Musk Plant 



Portulaca Cockscomb 



Morning Glorj" Mignonette 



CaUiopsis Double Feverfew 



Gaura (Prince's Feather) 



TaU Zinnia Tnimpet Flower 



Clarkia pulchella Globe Amaranth 



Catch Fly Petunia (single white) 



Shell Flower Stmflower 



Love-Ues-bleeding Love-in-a-mist 



(jodetia WTiitney Viscaria oculata 



Rose of Heaven Lady Shpper 



Four O'clock Pot Marigold 



Sweet Sultan Bachelor's Button 



10. Observationcil plats. Many children in villages and cities do not 

 know how the common grains look in the field. It is a good idea to have 

 observational plats on the school-garden, growing grains, and some of 

 the more important economic plants that are tised in some form by 



