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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



school, with a school garden and a manual 

 training- room as part of the equipment. It 

 is proposed to offer financial assistance to 

 one locality in Ontario, and one locality in 

 each of the Provinces of Quebec, New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward 

 Island, to promote this. 



Part 2 of the plan is for the purpose of 

 giving object lessons of the value of school 

 gardens and nature studies as a part of 

 general education at individual rural schools, 

 to be begun by means of a travelling 

 instructor until a considerable number of 

 suitable trained and qualified teachers are 

 available. It is proposed to off"er financial 

 assistance to one group of ten or fewer 

 schools in one locality in the various 

 Provinces, to this end. 



Progress in agricultural education would 

 be made by starting evening continuation 

 classes in the rural districts in connection 

 with those groups of schools, or in connec- 

 tion with the consolidated schools. 



Part 3 of the plan provides short courses 

 of instruction and training for teachers for 

 rural schools who desire to qualify them- 

 selves in those newer subjects and methods 

 of education, at the Ontario Agriculture 

 College at Guelph, in a special building. 



If provision should be made for a class of 

 about 30 teachers at each short course, it is 

 hoped that the Government would arrange 

 to enable approved teachers in rural schools 

 to take the short course, without loss of 

 situation or loss of salary. For the first 

 year it is proposed to make an allowance for 

 the teachers' travelling expenses to the 

 college, and an allowance of $25 to help in 

 meeting the expenses of board and lodging, 

 to every approved teacher who has taken a 

 full course satisfactory. 



It is proposed to offer to the province at 

 the Agricultural College at Guelph, a resid- 

 ence building to accommodate not less than 

 100 female students. 



It was suggested that suitable courses 



would include instruction in dairying, 

 poultry-keeping, bee-keeping, fruit-growing 

 and general gardening ; preparation and 

 serving of foods, sewing, dressmaking, and 

 the simpler forms of households art and 

 decoration, care, and cleansing of rooms, etc. 



Lord Roberts' Flower. — The P^ruit Trade 

 News, of London, England, proposes the 

 wearing of the Ixia by patriotic citizens on 

 Pretoria Day in honor of Lord Roberts' 

 victorious entry into that stronghold. Its 

 green color, it being a native of the veldt, 

 its blooming at the period above mentioned, 



Fig. 2237. Lord Roberts and his Flower. 



seem to combine in rendering tlfe sug^^estion 

 an appropriate one. Ixia viridiflora was 

 found by Schomberg in California, who stated 

 that it bore a cluster of green flowers some- 

 thing like a green head of wheat. This 

 Ixia is very pretty for table decorations and 

 may be easily grown from corms planted in 

 pots, or out doors in early spring. 



