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The author gives historical notes on the school garden movement in France, 

 describes a model school garden, and notes the object of school gardens and 

 the results obtained in 13 years in Cote-d'Or. A plan of the model school 

 garden at the Paris exposition is given. 



Report of the work of the School Gardening Association in 1911 and 1913 

 (Ber. For. Skolehar. Virks. [Denmark], 1911-12, pp. 1,8, figs. 2i).— This report 

 comprises a summary of the activities of the School Gardening Association in 

 1911-12. and brief reports on individual school gardens in Denmark. 



Civic welfare work and landscape gardening in the city of Cleveland, 

 Louise K. Miller {[Cleveland, Ohio, 1912], pp. 10). — An address given by the 

 chief supervisor of this work. 



Garden and playground nature study, J. E. Feasey (London, Bath, and 

 New York [1911], pp. VI+7-18Jt, figs. 7i). — The suggested observational studies 

 in plant life, light, heat, etc., for primary and secondary schools contained in 

 this volume have all been tested by experience. In the author's opinion 

 " nature study should surely mean the study of nature ; not merely the acqui- 

 sition of facts, but the studious discovery of those facts, the ' finding out ' of 

 things for one's self, the obf-ervation of phenomena, and the discovery of their 

 explanations. In other words, of all school subjects this should be experi- 

 mental . . . the guided pursuit of knowledge by the use of one's senses, 

 prompted by intellectual inquisitiveness." 



School and home gardens, J. W. Hungate (Dept. Agr. State Normal School 

 [Cheney, Wash.], Bui. A, No. 3, 1913, pp. 23, figs. 8).— This bulletin has to do 

 with the location of the garden, preparation of the soil, arrangement of the 

 garden, tools and appliances, and organizing the work. It also contains 10 

 practical exercises on the management of a garden. 



Gardening and nature study {Philadelphia: Bd. Pub. Ed. [1913], pp. 87). — 

 These lessons are intended for visiting classes and individual platholders in the 

 school gardens of the public schools of Philadelphia. 



Mississippi canning clubs, Susie V. Powell {South. Agr., 43 {1913), No. 12, 

 p. II,). — These clubs are organized by counties, being managed by an executive 

 committee consisting of one teacher from each supervisor's district and usually 

 ji representative club woman and a business man. In some instances the local 

 board of supervisors makes an appropriation for the work, in others the agri- 

 cultural high school board supplements the salary of its home economics 

 teacher. The latter plan of organization gives the work permanency, and also 

 affords the agricultural high school opportunity to do extension work in agri- 

 culture and home economics. No work is begun until the county superin- 

 tendent and his teachers pledge their cooperation, and sufficient funds are 

 raised to secure the services of a county director. 



The educational side of the work is stressed by correlating the arithmetic, 

 limguage, nature study, geography, agriculture, and chemistry lessons around 

 the club work as a center of interest. 



The first clubs were organized in 1911, and in 1913 there were 20 county 

 clubs. 



During the first year the club girls put up about 5,000 cans of tomatoes. In 

 1912 they canned about 110,000. Profits of over $10 each were realized in 1912 

 by 150 girls from one-tenth acre plats, and 16 girls cleared more than $50 

 e:ich. 



The geological course for agricultural instructors, 1912, A. Jentzsch 

 {Landiv. Jahri., J,S {1912), No. 3, pp. 373-40^) .—A detailed description is given 

 of the course in geology for agricultural instructors held in the Rhine Province 

 in 1912. This course is offered annually by the Prussian Geological Institute by 

 authority of the Prussian Minister of Agriculture. 



