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I am not unaware of the difficulties and problems concerned in 

 garden work. I am sure that a slow beginning is better than a 

 rapid failure, that thorough organization is better than enthusiastic 

 abandonment, that there is a real problem involved in the summer 

 vacation and acquisition of ground; yet I am equally sure that 

 these problems have been satisfactorily solved and can be solved 

 by any school with a purpose. Such are problems without the 

 purpose of this discussion. In conclusion School Gardens are not 

 only good but fundamental in the training of our citizenship of 

 to-morrow ; they are potential in the conservation of child life and 

 finally in the words of Dr. Eliot— " the most living work laboratory 

 of any dimensions is the school garden. The time is coming when 

 such a laboratory will be as much a part of a good school equipment 

 as blackboards, books and charts are now." 



News and Notes 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt of the Medical Corps of the Army was 

 elected active president of the newly formed Washington Aquarium 

 Society. 



Announcement is made that for two weeks during the summer of 

 1916 a party of students and their instructors from the department 

 of forestry at Cornell will be in camp on a forested tract at the south 

 end of Saratoga Lake. 



This summer course in practical forestry in the woods forms a 

 regular part of the work in the third, or summer, term at the state 

 college of agriculture, and the transfer of faculty and students 

 from Ithaca to a forest area is made for the purpose of getting first- 

 hand information in the woods themselves. 



Courses will include forest measurements, forest utilization, 

 the study of tree growth, and forest management. 



The party is limited to seniors and graduate students who are 

 regularly enrolled as candidates for the forestry degree. In 191 5 

 there were twenty students at the camp which was held, during the 

 past summer, in the northern Adirondacks. On the tract an 

 estimate of the standing timber was made, and a general plan for 

 management was drawn up. A similar study will be made on the 

 Saratoga tract, with this difference; because this area is nearer to 

 numerous wood-using mills greater attention can be paid to the 

 problems of close utilization of lumber and other forest products. 



