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by the Forest Service (12). Directions are given in considerable 

 detail showing just what to do to establish a nursery in con- 

 nection with an average school. Three other publications are 

 soon to be issued : Forestry in Nature-Study, Forestry in Agri- 

 culture, and Forestry in Geography. 



The Bureau of Plant Industry has been especially active in 

 promoting the movement for school gardens. At Washington, 

 under direct supervision of the Bureau, experiments in school 

 gardening have been carried on for several years. A part of 

 the government grounds with a greenhouse has been devoted 

 to this work. The Bureau sends to schools throughout the 

 country special packages of vegetable and flower seeds accom- 

 panied by circulars containing directions for planting and care 

 of school gardens (13, 14). The Bureau also furnishes sets of 

 one hundred samples of seeds of economic and wild plants put up in glass 

 vials, labeled with Latin and common names and arranged in an herbarium 

 tray for reference purposes. The seeds and the work of preparation are 

 furnished by this office free of charge, but it is necessary for those desiring 

 sets to supply the tray and vials used. These can be obtained at a cost of 

 $1.50 from Messrs. Mackall Bros., Qth and H Streets, N.E., of this city 

 [Washington, D.C.],to whom remittances should be made direct with the 

 request that the material be forwarded to this office. At the same time 

 kindly notify us that such remittance has been made.* 



Another phase of the work of this bureau is of especial 

 interest because of its remarkable development during 1910 

 and 1911. This is the Junior Demonstration Work among 

 the boys of the southern states (15). A brief summary of 

 this work is given in chap. xii. 



The following is a good summary of the educational work of 

 the Office of Experiment Stations : 



While the other bureaus of this Department are doing valuable educa- 

 tional work along the lines of research in which they are engaged the 

 Office of Experiment Stations is the general agency of the Department for 

 the promotion of agricultural education throughout the United States and 

 is constantly enlarging the scope and extent of this branch of its work. 



' From circular letter: "Seed Laboratory," Bureau of Pant Industry, United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture. 



