pupils notices such conditions and asks us why they take 

 place. We intend to educate the children through asso- 

 ciation, and must refrain from spreading before them what 

 little wisdom we older ones possess. That is the reason I 

 do not propose planting such species as Touch-me-not (Im- 

 patiens), or the Mimosa. 



THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



It depends on the space at our disposal whether we can 

 afford to endow each child with a little spot in which it 

 may grow vegetables, or whether the kindergartner has to 

 keep the different kinds of vegetables in distinct patches 

 and let the children help to cultivate and harvest. Which- 

 ever way may have to be pursued, the growing of vege- 

 tables is of prime importance for the children under our 

 charge. Let us recollect that every vacant lot in our cities 

 could well be planted after the plans of Mayor Pingree, of 

 Detroit, and here, in the kindergarten, is the place to be- 

 gin the training of the future cultivators of such useful 

 plots. Let us forbear, though, most carefully from trying 

 to point to such work as being of any cash value. The 

 children should not know the difference in price of one 

 coin from the other while they are with us in these sacred 

 grounds. But that spirit should be cultivated, to grow 

 something to receive returns. And these returns should 

 become the child's property to do with as he or she likes. 

 Do you doubt for a moment that the few potatoes will go 

 into mother's kitchen? That the handful of beans must be 



