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School gardens in Ireland (Dept. Agr. and Tech. Instr. Irela'nd Jour., 11 

 {1910), No. 1, pp. 129-131, pis. 2). — This is a brief description of school garden 

 worli in Ireland, showing the methods adopted in putting to practical use the 

 gardens attached to the country national schools. 



These methods may assume one of the following three forms: (1) In which 

 the teacher, having himself received some training in agricultural and horti- 

 cultural practice, directs and supervises the laying out of the garden into plats 

 for the cultivation by the pupils of the more common farm crops and kitchen 

 vegetables; (2) in which the space is utilized solely for the cultivation of the 

 vegetables more generally requiretl in plain domestic cooking, the chief object 

 aimed at being to make the pupils familiar with the use of the ordinai-y garden 

 tools and to give them a practical knowledge of vegetable cultivation: (3) in 

 which the school garden may be chosen as a suitable center for a horticultural 

 demonstration plat, enabling students to follow, imder the direction of the 

 teticher, the best methods of growing vegetables and fruit. 



An account is given of three typical school gardens representing the above 

 classifications, viz, at the T^illow National School, County of Waterford, the 

 St. Johnston National School, County of Donegal, and the Newmills National 

 School. County of Tyrone. 



School gardening and nature study, I, J. C. Willis (Circs, and Agr. Jour. 

 Roy. Hot. (lard. CUylon, .'j (1910). No. 5. pp. 39-Ji6). — This circular contains 

 genei-al direcLious fur making school gardens ornamental as well as useful. 



