Nature-Study Agriculture loi 



So far as possible, all nature-study work should 

 be conducted in the open, where the objects are. 

 If specimens are needed, let the pupils collect 

 them. See that observations are made on the 

 crops in the field as well as on the specimens. 

 Nature-study is an out-door process : the school- 

 room should be merely an adjunct to the out- 

 of-doors, rather than the out-of-doors an adjunct 

 to the schoolroom, as it is at present (pp. 40, 

 S6y 70). 



A laboratory of living things is a necessary 

 part of the best nature-study work. It is custo- 

 mary to call this laboratory a school-garden. 

 We need to distinguish different types of garden 

 page 83): (i) The ornamental or planted 

 grounds; this should be a part of every school 

 enterprise, for the premises should be attractive 

 to pupils and they should stand as an example 

 in the community. (2) The formal plat-gar- 

 den, in which a variety of plants is grown and 

 the pupils are taught the usual handicraft; this 

 is the prevailing kind of school-gardening. 

 (3) The problem-garden, in which certain 

 specific questions are to be studied, in much the 

 spirit that problems are studied in the indoor 



