CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



shoots and roots and experimental work in 

 plant physiology. 



" In one of the most successful schools — 

 Mount Fletcher, St. Andrew — I am informed 

 that small children beg for seeds and cuttings 

 to take home, and they not only cultivate flowers 

 but raise considerable quantities of vegetables 

 which are either consumed locally or sent to the 

 Kingston market." 



The Barbadoes Agricultural News of Janu- 

 ary 3, 1903, says : " School gardens are rapidly 

 becoming recognized factors of educational work 

 in several of the colonies. The time is ap- 

 proaching when every child in the West Indies 

 will be able to learn the principles underlying 

 agriculture." 



The Kamehameha Girls' School in Honolulu 

 furnishes a practical education to Hawaiian 

 girls from fourteen years of age and over, 

 qualifying them for service at home, for wage- 

 earning in some handicraft, or for entrance to 

 the Normal School to be trained for teachers 

 in the Government Schools. The School is well 

 endowed by its benefactor, Bemice Pauahi 

 Bishop, who died twenty years ago, and who 

 was of royal blood in direct line from the fa- 

 mous Kamehamehas. In the industrial depart- 

 ment of the School, the pupils have high-grade 

 instruction in weaving, lace-making, sewing, 



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