280 ON WATER AND WATERING PLANTS. 



scale than would be adopted in ordinary schools, is to be seen at 

 the academy of Dollar, to which the youth have constant access. 



It should also be made a part of the master's duty to direct the 

 attention of his scholars to the plants of the garden, to teach them 

 their history, describe their uses, and point out their culture. 

 All this might be easily done, as any master could soon learn all 

 that it is useful to know of such plants, and take pleasure in com- 

 municating this knowledge to his youthful charge ; and it might 

 be so conducted as to cause little or no interruption to the other 

 laborious exercises of the school. The instructions given as a 

 recreation in the play hours would not be the least valuable, as 

 knowledge is always more readily acquired by the young when it 

 is possible to combine pleasure with mental exertion. As the 

 parochial clergy are now so attentive to this taste for adorning 

 their own dwellings, they would no doubt readily take an inter- 

 est in such a plan, and encourage the love of it in the school- 

 master and his pupils. Such gardens, small in extent, might be 

 laid out at little expense. They should be kept in order by the 

 master, with the assistance of his scholars, who would soon take 

 much interest and delight in such occupations. Any trifling ex- 

 pense the proprietor might be at in ornamenting these small gar- 

 dens around the parochial school house, would be amply repaid 

 in the security of his woods from the mischievous shoolboy's 



knife. 



Host. Transactions. 



ARTICLE VII. 

 ON WATER AND WATERING PLANTS. 

 ( Continued from page 227.) 

 " In other glasses he dissolved several sorts of earth clayey 

 marles, and variety of manures, &c, and set mint in distilled 

 water, and made other experiments of several kinds, to get light 

 and information, as to what hastened or retarded, promoted or 

 impeded vegetation. 



" The glass P, was Hyde Park conduit-water: in this he fixed 

 a glass tube ten inches long, the bore about one sixth of an inch 

 diameter, filled with very fine and white sand, which he kept 

 from falling down out of the tube into the phial, by tying a thin 

 piece of silk over that end of the tube that was downwards. 



