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THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW 



[l, I, JAN. 1905 



first page of the note-book the pupil marks his own attendance 

 and keeps a weather report. The second page is reserved for a 

 diagram of the garden. On the third page the lessons begin. 

 They are copied from the blackboard or given from dictation in 

 clear, concise language. Packages of seeds put up in coin en- 

 velopes, just enough of a kind for a row, are suppHed the pupils, 

 and they then pass with the instructor to the tool-room where 

 each receives a numbered set of tools — a hoe, a rake, a line, and a 

 weeder. With the note-books, seeds and tools the children pass 

 through the observation plots to their gardens. An instructor 

 is always present to show the young gardeners (many of whom 



Garden No- 

 Name, 



SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE. Hartford, Conn. 



..Began. 



[E.— Excellent, 

 a.— Good. 

 o]F.-Fair. 



A —Absent. 

 L— Late. 



have never had a hoe or a rake in their hands before) how to 

 carry out the instructions given in the class-room. As soon as the 

 work is finished, each child takes his tools to the tool-room, cleans 

 and hangs them in their proper places, returns the note-book to 

 the class-room and goes home. In this way discipline is reduced 

 to a minimum because the quicker pupils are not kept idly about 

 while the slower ones finish their work. The girls' gardens are 

 the same as the boys ; but they come in separate classes. 



All work about the individual gardens is done by the pupils, 

 who become owners and have all the products of their toil. The 

 third and fourth year pupils assist some in staking out their own 

 gardens and selecting the crops they are to grow. The fourth 

 year pupils make all their own selections and original diagrams. 

 The individual gardens have gradually increased in size until now 

 they are ten by thirty feet for beginners, ten by forty feet for 

 second year pupils, ten by sixty feet for third year pupils, and ten 

 by eighty feet for fourth year pupils. They are situated on the 



