AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



to tell him of hidden treasure; or his habits may be 

 more thoroughly investigated if the garden is rich 

 enough to possess a model hive. The visiting birds 

 and the toad come in also for watchful study. 



Each teacher must plan her own outline of work 

 and adapt her day to any special study its events 

 may suggest. Set lessons may 

 have to be used in handling 

 large numbers of children, but 

 the ideal would be friendly talks 

 with little groups, apparently on 

 the spur of the moment, yet 

 having a line of sequence run- 

 ning through the entire sum- 

 mer's work. One good manual, 

 like Comstock's or a book like 

 Weed's on ''Insect Life," or 

 United States bulletins such as 

 No. 196 on the Garden Toad or 

 Nature Leaflet, No. 18, Mass. 

 State Board of Agriculture, on 

 Aphids, will contain sufficient 

 accurate information for the 

 teacher who has had no train- 

 ing in nature study or science. 

 In the garden there are occa- 

 sions for some of the florist's operations of seeding, 

 potting, transplanting.* One graphic rule serves for 

 transplanting as well as for thinning, and the chil- 

 dren can more readily remember it than a number 



* See Appendix A, Note 13, for directions for these operations. 

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"Killing Jar." 



Cyanide or "killing jar" 

 may be an ordinary pre- 

 serve jar or any wide- 

 mouthed stoppered bottle 

 that may be tightly closed 

 to keep in the poisonous 

 fumes from the lump of 

 cyanide. This should be 

 set in plaster of paris. 



