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The school garden work should be continued but more attention 

 should be given to important economic plants and varieties of each; 

 to selected seed; to the influences of climate, soil, cultivation, and 

 irrigation; and to the work of birds and insects. The correlation of 

 nature study and gardening with composition, arithmetic, geography, 

 drawing, and other subjects should also be kept in mind. Every 

 California teacher should have a copy of Davis's School Gardens for 

 California Schools, which discusses in considerable detail the value 

 of school gardens, the character of work to be undertaken, and the 

 correlation of gardening and other school work. This and other aids 

 for teachers of nature study are mentioned in the list below: 



SOME HELPFUL NATURE STUDY AND SCHOOL GARDEN PUBLICATIONS. 



School Gardens and Their Kelation to Other School Work. W. A. 



Baldwin (Amer. Civic Assoc, Dept. Children's Gard. Pamphlet 2, 



pp. 15, figs. 6). 



Suggestions are given for correlating school garden work with arithmetic, language, 

 drawing, and other subjects. Additional references to school garden publications are 

 given. 



The School Garden. By L. C. Corbett. (Washington: U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 218, 1905. Ip. 40, 

 figs. 33. Free.) 



Contents: Introduction, value of school garden work, the individual school garden, 

 laboratory exercises, window boxes for schoolrooms, specimen plants for schoolrooms, 

 and the decorations of school grounds. Under the individual school garden the topics 

 treated are types of plants for the garden, a vegetable garden, rotation of crops, com- 

 bination vegetable and flower gardens, cultural suggestions, vegetables, and flowering 

 plants. The laboratory exercises include studies of soils, plants, cuttings, grafts, and 

 budding. Under the decoration of school grounds consideration is given to the plan, 

 walks, lawns, annual plants suitable for school grounds, and trees and shrubs suitable 

 for school grounds and classified by sections of the country where they will grow most 

 readily. 



A Few Good Books and Bulletins on Nature Study, School Gardening, 



and Elementary Agriculture for Common Schools. By Dick J. 



Crosby. (Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office 



of Expt. Stas. Circ. 52. 1903. Pp. 4. Free.) 



This circular gives a list of (1) a few books which will aid the teacher who is begin- 

 ning nature study work, (2) supplementary aids for the teacher, (3) interesting nature 

 studies for pupils, (4) up-to-date elementary texts on agriculture suitable for pupils in 

 the grammar school and the high school, and (5) publications which might serve as the 

 nucleus for a public school agricultural library. 



School Gardens for California Schools. By B. M. Davis. (California 

 State Normal School, Chico, Bui. 1, pp. 79, figs. 11, chart 1. 50 

 cents.) 

 This is a manual for teachers based on experiments in school garden work at the 



Los Angeles and Chico State normal schools. The author deals briefly with the history 



