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participate in the planting and cultivation of the family- 

 garden. An autumn exhibit held at the schoolhouse showing 

 the flower, fruit, and vegetable products of the children's home- 

 gardens stimulates general interest in this phase of education. 

 In the City of Chatham, Ont., such an exhibit is one of the 

 most important school events of the year. Group photographs 

 of school children exhibiting their potted and boxed plants 

 are given on pp. 90 and 98 of Hodge's " Nature Study and 

 Life." Showing these and similar pictures to pupils will 

 suggest lines of action. Directions for making school-gardens 

 will be found in "Public School Nature Study" (The Copp, 

 Clark Co., Limited), and H. D. Hemenway's "How to make 

 School Gardens " (Doubleday & Page). 



Literature and Art. — The term correlation as technically 

 understood is hardly applicable to the relation that exists 

 between Nature Study and the foregoing subjects from 

 Geography to Domestic Science. They are part of it or it is 

 part of them. But there may be a real correlation between 

 Nature Study and Literature and Art. Much of the finest 

 prose and poetry cannot be fully enjoyed or understood by one 

 who has not first-hand knowledge of the related nature, and 

 many things in nature are not appreciated to the fullest extent 

 by one whose sympathetic vision has not been deepened by the 

 poet and artist. 



"The child" says John Burroughs, "does not consciously love 

 nature ; it is curious about things, about everything ; its instincts lead 

 it forth into the fields and woods ; it browses around ; it gathers flowers 

 — they are pretty ; it stores up impressions. Boys go forth into nature 

 more as savages ; they are predaceous, gathering roots, nuts, wild fruits, 

 etc. At least this was my case. I hunted, I fished, I browsed, I 

 wandered with a vague longing in the woods, I made ponds in the little 



streams, I slept under the trees, etc I was not conscious 



of any love for nature, as such, till my mind was brought into contact 

 with literature. Then I discovered that I, too, loved nature, and had a 

 whole world of impressions stored up in my subconscious self to draw 



