310 MASSACHUSETTS IIORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



gardens in Southern Russia. lu one province two hundred and 

 twenty-seven schools out of a total of five hundred and four have 

 school gardens, whose total area is two hundred and eighty-three 

 acres. In 1895 these gardens contained one hundred and eleven 

 thousand fruit trees and two hundred thirty-eight thousand three 

 hundred planted forest trees. In them the schoolmasters 

 teach tree, vine, grain, garden, silkworm, and bee culture. 

 They are supported by small grants of money, from the country 

 and district councils. In the villages small orchards and kitchen 

 gardens are connected with many primary schools. This move- 

 ment has also widely spread over different provinces of Central 

 Russia. It is worthy of the attention of a Society like this, at 

 least so far as calling the attention of school officials to the round- 

 ing out of a city child's education iu a very practical manner. 

 The fundamental ideas obtained by a child from direct contact 

 with the things found in the gardens mentioned are not inferior 

 to any ideas obtained from the objects commonly found in a city. 



