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(a) Any school which presents possibilities for school 
gardening will be furnished with a stock of implements, and sup- 
plied with seeds from time to time: where required, fencing wire 
will also be supplied. 
(e) The school gardens will be inspected periodically by 
the superintendent and his assistants, and prizes will be awarded 
by the department to teachers who show the best results. 
(f) A certificate will accompany each prize, setting forth 
the nature of the award, etc., and certificates of honorable men- 
tion will also be awarded to deserving teachers. 
Twenty points are given which are to be considered in the 
judging of school gardens, among which are area cultivated, 
situation and lay of the land, climate and rainfall, number and 
variety of plants grown, arrangement of plants and trees, lawn 
and playground, school garden records, activity and intelligence 
of scholars, care of implements, and aptitude and interest shown 
by the teacher. 
The second leaflet contains information about the ordering 
of seeds for school gardens, which are supplied by the Superin- 
tendent of School Gardens from the Government stock gardens, 
but after any given garden has received its first supply of seeds 
from the Government, it is expected that it will, for the most 
part, raise its future supply for itself. 
Leaflet No. 3 is entitled, “A Few Plain Words to Teachers,” 
and among other good advice given, six difficulties are named 
which are often raised by teachers against the possibility of doing 
school garden work. ‘T'renchant replies to all these difficulties 
are given by the superintendent, who states that the poorest 
excuse which a teacher can make is, that school boys or their 
parents object to outdoor work. He replies, “If he [the teacher] 
cannot persuade the boys to work with him in the garden, he 
does not deserve to hold his place.” 
The fourth leaflet contains information about garden tools, 
which are also supplied by the Department of School Gardens 
on condition that they be made good use of and are properly 
cared for. The list of tools contains a number which are quite 
unheard of in America, as, for example, an alavangoe, for dig- 
ging holes for fence posts and for large plants; mammoty, used 
