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of the educational and social aims of the organization are in gen- 

 eral terms so similar to those underlying gardening for children 

 that teachers of nature-study who are local directors of children's 

 gardens ought to get into touch with the work of this national 

 society. In a later issue we hope to review some phases of the 

 work of the Civic Association. 



Garden Magazine. A new periodical with this title appeared 

 last month (Feb.), published by Doubleday, Page & Co., New 

 York. It contains many timely articles and notes of interest 

 to those who make gardens primarily for pleasure. It is attrac- 

 tively illustrated. Monthly. $1.00 per year. 



Training Teachers at Macdonald Institute. As No. 20 of a 

 series of nature-study papers by Canadian educators, the Ottaz^a 

 Naturalist publishes in the January, 1905, issue (Vol. 18, pp. 193- 

 196) an article on " Nature-study at the Macdonald Institute," 

 by D. J. Doyle, which gives many interesting facts concerning 

 the work of this new training school. It is of special interest to 

 note that, while recognizing the importance of child-study to the 

 teacher of nature-study, the staff of this school insists upon 

 " placing the students as much as possible in direct contact with 

 nature " by means of field excursions and laboratory study. 



Report of Children's School Farm. An interesting account of 

 gardening is to be found in a recent pamphlet entitled '' Report 

 of the First Children's School Farm in New York City, originated 

 and conducted by Mrs. Henry Parsons." This report is " printed 

 for distribution in answer to the constant inquiries from all parts 

 of the country concerning the details of the work whose great 

 importance Mrs. Parsons was the first person to demonstrate in 

 the city of New York, with the cooperation of the Park Board." 

 It is a very full and satisfactory account of the gardening work 

 directed in the unimproved part of DeVVitt Clinton Park (Eleventh 

 Avenue and 52d St.) in the summers of 1902, 1903, 1904; and 

 will doubtless be helpfully suggestive to others who conduct such 

 experiments in densely populated regions of our great cities. 

 From the educational standpoint the Children's Farm is in no 

 essential respect different from many gardens which were devel- 

 oped years ago in other cities ; but it is of interest because it is 

 another successful garden developed under very adverse con- 

 ditions. 



