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"The actual planting of flowers and fruits, the attendant care 

 and the final result in beautiful yards, streets and boulevards are 

 second in importance, in my mind, to the most important results 

 that will bring about far reaching development in the education 

 of these young people. The school children of Los Angeles will 

 receive benefits through this movement that will extend into the 

 years to come. 



"The efforts of the pupils and teachers must result in standards 

 that will not tolerate many of the ugly and unsightly places now 

 to be seen in American cities. 



"Los Angeles is taking the lead in encouraging her school 

 children to love the beautiful. I hope this movement will meet 

 with tremendous success, not only in this city but throughout the 

 United States." 



Heuristic Method 



L. C. McLean 



The writer recently, when visiting the Provincial London, Ont., 

 Normal School, accompanied a group of teachers-in-trainlng with 

 Professor J. Dearness in charge on an investigation trip to the 

 school-garden. It may be said that from time to time during 

 discussions in his class-room questions are asked and problems 

 arise that are not disposed of then and there but are reserved for 

 investigation either as practice in the heuristic method or illustra- 

 tions of it. On this occasion the trip referred to was made to 

 investigate three such questions, namely: 



(i) Do the double Ten-Weeks Stocks produce any seed; if 

 not how may they be propagated ? 



(2) What other methods of aggregating flowers than the one 

 shown by the Composites are exhibited in the school-garden? 

 This question had come up in a discussion of the advantages of the 

 Composite inflorescence. 



(3) How comes it that the door-yard knot-weed flourishes in 

 much trodden situations? 



(i) Examination by the students of a large number of single and 

 double flowered stocks in the garden disclosed no example of fruit- 

 ing double-flowering plants nor of sterile single ones. After 

 warning against a dogmatic conclusion that double flowering stocks 



