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Indiana State Department of Public Instruction, vice-president ; and C. II. Lane, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, secretary. 



Among the organizations meeting with the National Education Association 

 was the School Garden Association of America, The Relation Between School 

 Gardens and Home Gardens was considered by L. A. DeWolfe, who reported 

 that in Nova Scotia the school garden has not yet helped the home garden so 

 much as it should since the school garden is still too often regarded as unneces- 

 sary or even detrimental to school work. " Nevertheless, the school garden has 

 its place. It is the demonstration ground where principles to be applied to the 

 home garden are taught. When the children see celery planted, or proper trans- 

 planting done, they can go home and do likewise. But no amount of telling will 

 give them the courage to try." 



In the paper by Caro Miller entitled Gardening in the City Schools of To- 

 morrow, she said that the formal restricted school gardening of yesterday and 

 to-day is gradually giving way to a broader treatment of gardening from the 

 standpoint of a vocation and an avocation. 



" We may expect gardening in the city schools of to-morrow to develop along 

 these lines: (1) Systematic training of all city normal school students in the 

 theory and practice of gardening, (2) the widest use of the formal school 

 garden through the school day by visiting classes, from the kindergarten to 

 eighth grade, for practical work on a class plat and theoretical lessons from a 

 progressive graded course of study, (3) home gardens supervised by paid 

 trained teachers after school and during vacation, (4) vacant lots used as 

 supplements to home gardens, (5) agricultural clubs for home project work, 

 (6) well-organized fall exhibits of home and school garden products, (7) 

 decorative plantings on school grounds which shall be truly a model for the 

 neighborhood, (8) systematic planting and expert care of trees and vines for 

 all schools, and (9) elective courses in general agriculture and horticulture 

 offered in all high schools." 



S. B. McCready read a paper on Ideal Gardens for Country Schools. He 

 pointed out that ideal gardens presuppose ideal conditions, such as a permanent 

 teacher interested in her commimity and believing in the power to affect human 

 lives through gardening ; an interested community intent on progress, loyal to 

 their teacher and realizing that in the interests awakened in their boys and 

 girls lie their best satisfactions ; a loyal band of boys and girls not afraid of 

 work, willing and desirous to help make the school attractive; and a school 

 property worth improving and possible to improve, having good soil, etc. 



Ellen Eddy Shaw read a paper on What Can a Botanic Garden Do to Help 

 School Gardens? This consisted largely of a review of the work of the Brook- 

 lyn Botanic Gardens through regular garden instruction, cooperation with the 

 schools in their nature and geography work, and courses given to teachers in 

 garden work and in botanical nature work. 



Association of Agricultural College Editors. — This association met for its fourth 

 conference at the Kansas College, June 21-23, with representatives of about 

 fifteen States and this Department. An address of welcome was given by 

 President H. J. Waters, in which he advocated as the ideal qualification for 

 college editors, training in agriculture and journalism, together with news- 

 paper and farm experience. An exhibit of bulletins and press material formed 

 a special feature of this meeting. 



Officers were elected as follows : President, W. C. McClintock, director of 

 publications in the Ohio State University ; vice-president, N. A. Crawford, 

 professor of industrial journalism in the Kansas College ; secretary-treasurer. 

 Dr. B. E. Powell, director of information in the University of Illinois ; and 

 additional members of the executive connnittee. H. B. Potter and W. C. Palmer, 



