106 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [14:3— Mar., 1918 



The matter of choosing a name for each club was taken up in 

 all seriousness by the little foreigners, and many and varied were 

 the titles. 



All plants were to be cared for at home and brought to school 

 to be exhibited on a special day appointed by a committee of 

 teachers, who also served as judges. The foreign visitors showed 

 great interest, many of them able to communicate with principal 

 and teachers only by gestures. 



In the lower Bronx, at P. S. 30, over one thousand pupils 

 exhibited their carefully nutured plants last June. 



Most of these were grown and tended at home but some class- 

 room plants, cared for by faithful monitors, were also entered in 

 the exhibition. The clubs in the different classes, chose their 

 own colors and schemes for preparing the plants for exhibition, 

 showing good taste and ingenuity in preparation. Every class, 

 visited this display. Our illustration shows the interest of a first 

 year class in one part of the exhibit. 



Some of the older boys had prepared two barrels by perforating 

 at six inch spaces the upper half of each. In one of these barrels, 

 filled with good soil were placed about 35 strawberry plants, 

 and in the second, a subnormal class planted climbing nastur- 

 tiums. 



Both of these were in prime condition when the exhibition was 

 held, ripe strawberries hanging around one barrel, and the other 

 festooned with vines of beautiful blooms. 



A class of 50 first year boys started an eggshell garden. Two 

 roasting pans at 10 cents each, filled with wet sand, held the shells. 

 After these shells had been filled with good soil, each boy planted 

 a pea seed, and wrote his initials on his eggshell. When the vines 

 grew quite tall they were supported by splints and several plants 

 not only blossomed but bore pods of peas. 



One fifth year boy who evidently had a bent for landscape 

 gardening, laid out a center bed, paths and side plots, all outlined 

 with agates, in a three inch by two inch box. At one end of the 

 box, on the level of the path he drilled a hole and inserted an 

 umbrella ferule, below which he hung a small can to catch the 

 overflow of water. He was willing to take no risks of having his 

 seeds drowned out. 



