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common vegetable and flower seeds that the pupils may learn 

 to know the young plants and thus weed and protect them better 

 in their home gardens is good school garden work and can be 

 conducted with credit to all concerned, when the planting of 

 seed just to have a garden and raise some well known radishes, 

 onions, or lettuce might fail in its purpose. 



Some of the best results I have seen in school gardening 

 came from the use of boxes filled with soil and planted with 

 seeds, for the purpose of studying germination and comparative 

 young plant recognition. 



Except in the crowded city where but few home .gardens 

 exist, the best use of the school garden is an incentive to chil- 

 dren to operate home gardens. The little experiments in the 

 school garden should teach lessons in principles which the child 

 may apply in the conduct of a real garden at home. 



The city school garden with its paid gardener who manages 

 it during the year is quite a different proposition than the school 

 garden where the teacher alone is responsible for the work. 



The school garden conducted, for a purpose, with the applica- 

 tion of good judgment and constant, faithful attention is a most 

 delightful means of enriching the education of pupils and of 

 keeping the teacher closer to the real principles of teaching. Let 

 those who are not in position to successfully carry it out proceed 

 carefully not only for the sake of their own professional happi- 

 ness and success, but for the sake of a good cause which has too 

 often suffered at the hands of its sfood. but misguided, friends. 



Hygiene as Nature-Study 



F. M. GRE6G. 



Peru (Nebr.) State Normal. 



III. A Study of the Skin. 



The purpose of the hygiene study for this number is to pro- 

 vide a basis for developing or magnifiying the importance of 

 habits of cleanliness. The schools may not themselves be able 

 to set up all kinds of habits that are desirable in its beneficiaries, 

 but they can at least make some effort in this direction and can 

 supplement and cooperate with the efforts of the home for these 

 desirable ends. 



A. The Nature-Study Approach. 



1. Microscopic study of the skin surface — (a) Take a simple 



