32 ' The Ottawa Naturalist. [April 



in a while some discerning man outside of the resi'ular school 

 interests, sees the inconsistencies of educational systems. Relation- 

 ship with nature is a source of inexhaustible delight and enrich- 

 ment. To establish it ought to be as much a part of every educa 

 tion as the teaching of the rudiments of formal knowledge, and it 

 ought to be as great a reproach to a man not to be able to read 

 the open page of the world about him as not to be able to read the 

 open page of the book before him." 



(Signed) Helen Christine Bennett, 



1206 Stiles St., Philadelphia. 

 Instructor at Children's School Farm. ' 

 New York City, 1902-1903. 

 Philadelphia, January 12th, 1904. 



Note. — The Children's School Farm in New York City was 

 an original scheme of Mrs. Henry Parsons, a member of the Local 

 School Board of the iith School District of Manhattan, to whom 

 the writer feels that she owes a lasting debt of gratitude for the 

 training received during the past two summers. The success of 

 the School Garden idea in New York is entirely due to the untiring 

 energy and perseverence of Mrs. Parsons. — H. C. B. 



The foregoing excellent article is sent to The Ottawa 

 Naturalist by Mr. R. H. Cowley, who has collected extensive 

 information on the subject of School Gardens. In this connec- 

 tion many of our readers will follow with special interest the 

 Macdonald School Garden experiment which will be inaugurated 

 this spring under Mr. Cowley's direction in the County of 

 Carleton. — J. F. 





