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names of the plants, with a reference in each case to the page in the 

 note-book where the experiment with this plant is described. 



Choice of Plants. In deciding what plants shall be cultivated in the 

 school garden, first choice must be given to the plants in cultivation by 

 the people of the locality. With these it will be well to cultivate also 

 some plants locally unused, but cultivated elsewhere in the Philippines 

 or elsewhere in the world. Most of the plants now cultivated in the 

 Philippines are natives of other countries ; and the most valuable plants 

 of other tropical countries are now cultivated in the Philippines. The 

 seeds for each student's planting must be so chosen that he will have 

 work throughout the school year. If plants which mature quickly, such 

 as the radish, are planted early in the year, other plants should be ready 

 to take their place as soon as the ground is vacant. 



Plant Records. A part of the garden area should be used for 

 the cultivation of perennial plants. In this part every school should 

 endeavor to have growing every perennial plant that is of real economic 

 importance in cultivation anywhere in the Islands. This part of the 

 garden will illustrate the lessons dealing with these plants. In most 

 gardens it will be impossible for each student to cultivate all the 

 important plants grown by any student. However, none, even those 

 which he does not himself cultivate, should be wanting from any stu- 

 dent's note-book. The teacher should know the exact history of each 

 plant, and should see that the students' note-books contain as complete 

 an account as possible of every plant cultivated, according to the tabu- 

 lated form already given. These accounts should be put in the note- 

 books when the plants in question are studied in the text-book. In 

 reporting the plants he did not cultivate, the student should tell where 

 he obtained the results stated and should be very concise ; if possible, 

 he should in such cases report averages from several plots rather than 

 the work of any one student. 



Questions and Directions. In most of the chapters in this book 

 are questions, or directions for work, printed in a smaller type than 

 is used for the text. These questions should invariably be answered 

 in the note-book, and reports on the work called for should be written 

 in full. 



