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to try out, on a large scale, the cultivation of bulbs in the schools. 

 This experiment was most successful. 



There are more schools with school gardens in New York than in 

 any other city, but there are also more pupils with home garden 

 opportunities than in any other city. In the early season 92,000 

 circulars encouraging pupils to buy and plant seeds in their home 

 gardens were circulated in the schools. This would indicate that 

 in the schools of the outlying boroughs there are doubtless 100,000 

 children with opportunities for home gardening. 



It is estimated that the season's produce reached a total value of 

 $33.1 53 -SO- The early tabulations showed $6,797.46 worth of 

 vegetables taken from the school gardens during the summer. 



Twenty-two teachers conducted the gardens of seventy-three 

 public schools. Over 3,500 pupils had garden plots and during the 

 summer took an average daily produce home of $135.95. The 

 value of all these vegetables was computed after countihg or meas- 

 uring by the teachers in charge, and reporting the value of the 

 amount taken out of each garden weekly. For example, a quart of 

 beans was rated 15 cents; a head of lettuce 10 cents; a carrot 

 2 cents, etc. 



It is not difficult to understand when children secure so much 

 valuable food every day that the attendance is very nearly 100 per 

 cent, based on at least once a week cultivation. But in many 

 shaded gardens, particularly in Aianhattan, where very little pro- 

 duce was procured, the attendance was maintained through the 

 natural interest of the child to cultivate a living plant. 



Do We Need School Museums? 



Elizabeth K. Peeples, Elizabeth Dyer 

 Teachers of Nature-Study, Washington, D. C. 



Are you one of those unfortunate teachers with a taste for travel 

 and a correspondingly ill-filled purse ? Then partially satisfy that 

 taste by having your pupils make a school museum. Whatever it 

 lacks in intrinsic value, rarity or beauty will be made up by enthu- 

 siasm of the collectors, the joy of proprietorship and the never- 

 failing happiness of seeing the project grow. 



First of all there is the high adventure of producing out of nothing 

 a case to hold whatever the children collect. In accomplishing 



