SOME ADVANTAGES. 31 



The improvement of former methods of husbandry 

 will go hand in hand in the rising generation, with the 

 introduction of new cultivated plants and their proper 

 handling in the school garden ; much injurious routine 

 work inherited from the forefathers will fall into disuse ; 

 many wholesome innovations will make their way, and 

 formerly despised or carelessly rejected material will be 

 duly estimated. In many countries esteemed for their 

 husbandry, the cow manure which is allowed to run to 

 waste and to poison the air in so many of our villages, 

 is made good use of. All kinds of manure must be pre- 

 served in the school garden in as small a space as pos- 

 sible, to be used by young and old for single plants. 

 Its value is held, alas, very low in almost all parts of 

 Austrian Hungary. 



IMPROVEMENT OF THE SOIL. 



The ground soon will be made much better and more 

 profitable if this matter of its dressing is attended to, 

 than it now is in most places ; in the neighborhood of 

 cities especially, the village will assume more and more 

 the character of richly remunerative garden culture. 

 Where garden culture already prevails, it will be ex- 

 tended and improved, and in some places where at pres- 

 ent it is supposed to be impossible, it will cover the 

 present nakedness, as for instance in many a woodland 

 or mountain village. Where early frosts make impos- 

 sible the early transplanting of garden growths, the 

 children of the school garden can be taught not to lay 

 out their beloved hot-beds, but to use the much cheaper 

 leaf-mould beds which do their duty much more surely, 

 because, being set later in the year, they give out 

 young plants suitable for the mountain regions at the 



