REPORT 



OF THE 



Cofflmittee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums 



FOR THE YEAR 1897. 



Bv HENRY LINCOLN CLAPP, Chairman. 



GEORGE PUTNAM SCHOOL GARDEN, ROXRURY. 



The following named plants were set out in the garden during 

 the season of 1897 : 



Arenaria lateriflora, Geum rivale, 



Cfipripedium arietinitm, Viola lanceolata, 



" pubescens, " rostrota. 



" spectabile, 



The garden has been used as in previous years, hut more exten- 

 sively. AVhole classes have visited it repeatedly to observe the 

 plants, and plant material has been taken from it to be studied in 

 the class room. Ferns and composite flowers have received the 

 most attention. Already the pupils of the ninth grade have be- 

 come quite familiar with fourteen species of ferns, which have 

 been studied in the customary manner, — by means of lantern- 

 slides, pressed specimens, and the ferns growing in the fernery. 



Each member of the class has a notebook carefully kept, and 

 containing pinnre or fronds of every fern studied. Miss L. D. 

 Ellis, a member of the class in 1896, won Mr. Davenport's first 

 prize of fifty choice ferns, at the Herbarium Exhibition in Novem- 

 ber, 1897. " 



Excellent opportunities have been found for making lantern- 

 slides from the fern crosiers in different stages of growth as seen 

 in the fernerv. 



