News and Notes 



Tentative Report of Committee of the School Garden Association 



of America 



On Affiliation with the American Nature-Study Society 



We believe that affiliation is desirable to the extent of (1) 

 meeting together whenever feasible, (2) having a department 

 devoted to the interests of teachers of school gardening in the 

 Nature-Study Review, and (3) making provision whereby 

 membership in both associations and subscription to the Nature- 

 Study Review can be secured at a lower rate than separate mem- 

 bership in both associations. To bring about these desirable ends 

 we recommend : 



1. That arrangements between the American Nature-Study 

 Society and the School Garden Association of America as to 

 programs and places of meeting be entirely informal and left to 

 the presidents of the organizations to arrange. 



2. That the Nature-Study Review, which is now devoted 

 largely to the discussion of pedagogical questions, conduct a de- 

 partment on school gardening and an assistant editor be appointed 

 by the School Garden Association of America, to secure and edit 

 the school garden copy. 



o. That active membership and annual dues in both or- 

 ganizations, including one subscription to the Nature-Study 

 Review, be fixed at $1.25. to be paid to the treasurer of either 

 organization and by him divided in the ratio of 85 cents to the 

 Nature-Study Review and 40 cents to the School Garden As- 

 sociation. 



Ernest B. Babcock. 

 Dick J. Crosby, 

 Louise Kleix Miller. 



Committee. 



Hoi^' may school gardens be financed f 



Approach people with means; men and women, public- 

 spirited — or apparently not. Explain to them the necessity for 

 School Gardens and you will be surprised how liberallv they ex- 

 tend a helping hand. School entertainments, social gatherings, — 

 anything to cause public sentiment. 



Cause a little to be done here, a little there, and a little some- 

 where else, and in time it will be gathered into a mighty current 



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