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and development of school gardens and their educational value; devotes a chapter to 

 the plant and its relations, including soils, fertilizers, temperature, and plant enemies, 

 with an annotated list of some of the most common and important insects of California; 

 another chapter to plant propagation, in which is included a plant calendar containing 

 condensed information concerning quite a variety of vegetables, flowers, and climbing 

 plants; a third chapter to instruction, including practical work and correlative sub- 

 jects; a brief description of school gardens at Los Angeles and Chico; an abridged list 

 of useful books and bulletins for a school library; references to literature on insects 

 mentioned in the text, and a bibliography of 218 entries on school gardens, nature 

 study, elementary agriculture, and horticulture. An appendix contains "some 

 exercises for experimental study of soils and other factors of plant growth." 



School Gardens. By B. T. Galloway. (Washington: U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Acrriculture, Office of Expt. Stas. Bui. 160, 1906. Pp. 

 47, pis. 5.) 



A report is given on the school garden work in the District of Columbia, conducted 

 in a cooperative way by this Department and the normal schools of the District, under 

 the direction of the Bureau of Plant Industry and Miss Susan B. Sipe, instructor in 

 botany in Normal School No. 1. The garden work described includes the boys' vege- 

 table gardens on the grounds of this Department, the home gardens of the normal school 

 pupils, and the improvement of school grounds at Normal School No. 1, and 32 other 

 schools in the District. Supplementary to this report is a report by Miss Sipe on 

 school gardens visited by her in the summer of 1904 in Hartford, Conn. ; Boston, Brook- 

 line, Hyannis, and Worcester, Mass.; St. Louis, Mo.; New York City, Yonkers, and 

 Rochester, N, Y.; Cleveland, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pa. Throughout the bulletin 

 an effort has been made to bring out the educational trend of garden work in the 

 different enterprises described. 



How to Make School Gardens. By H. D. Hemenway. (New York: 



Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. Pp. XVI-flOT, pis. figs. 16.) 



This is a popular work dealing with the details of making a school garden, such as 

 laying out beds, planting seeds, sowing seeds in window boxes, making cuttings, and 

 grafting and budding. A bibliography of school garden literature is appended. 



Nature Study and Life. By C. F. Hodge. (London and Boston: 



Ginn&Co., 1902. Pp. 514, pi. l,figs. 196.) 



This is a practical treatise on nature study, tlie subject being treated from the 

 standpoint of living things. It contains a vast amount of suggestive and useful infor- 

 mation regarding domestic animals and native plants, insects, birds, and lower forms 

 of animal life. Much of it has an agricultural and economic bearing. Thus, detailed 

 directions are given for the growing of an :ipi)le tree, peach tree, grapevine, etc., from 

 the planting of the seed to the grafting or buckling of tlie plants, and the after treatment 

 as fruit trees. A chapter on our common birds is considered from the standpoint of 

 what birds do, and their value in the community and to farm life is clearly brought out. 

 Most of the insects treated are those dinM'lly related to our orcliard. garden, and field 

 crops, and to the household. A chapter is given on elementary forestry, and another 

 on flowerless plants like ferns, mosses, and mushrooms. A final chapter contains sug- 

 gestions for lessons with plants and animals, suited to the different grades in the school. 



Children's Gardens. By Louise Klein Miller. (New York, Boston, 



and Chicago: D. Apple ton & Co., 1904. Pp. 230, il.) 



This book discusses schot)l gardens as a factor in education and shows the socio- 

 logical and economical .significance of th(> training tlu-y afford. It gives detailed 

 directions for planting and caring for sdiool gardens in both city and country, with 



