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solution. Each plant may be set in an eggshell half-filled 

 with broken glass or sand, or in a small bottle, always taking 

 care to renew the solution occasionally, or frequently if the 

 vessel be small. 



Plant Life-HiStOrieS. — The beginner, who desires to teach 

 the life-history of plants, but lacks confidence in his own eyes 

 and judgment, can find a large and increasing literature to 

 help him. If he uses such helps in a few examples, after the 

 manner that the Sulphur Butterfly was treated, page 128, he 

 may hope soon to be able to deal with any common plant from 

 original investigation. M. W. Morley's "A Few Familiar 

 Flowers " will direct you in the study of the morning glory, 

 pp. 1-107; nasturtium, pp. 107-153; geranium, 181-215. C. 



B. Scott's " Nature Study and the Child " devotes 37 pages to 

 the Dandelion. Wood's " How to Study Plants " and nearly 

 all the books mentioned on pages 24 and 25 give lessons 

 on plants or histories of them. In " Public School Nature 

 Study" there are catechetical lessons on clover, trillium, 

 dandelion, horse-chestnut, maple, apple, potato, grass and 

 plantain. 



School Gardens. — In Ontario and New Brunswick govern- 

 ment grants are given to boards of trustees making provision 

 for school-gardens that come up to a prescribed standard of 

 area and equipment. Through the munificence of Sir William 



C. Macdonald, administered under the energetic initiative and 

 wise direction of Dr. Jas. W. Robertson, a group of five 

 school-gardens has been established as examples in each of the 

 Provinces named above and in Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Prince 

 Edward Island. In the Queen's Quarterly, 1905, pp. 390- 

 419, Inspector Cowley has given an account of the work 

 accomplished in these twenty-five schools, dwelling particularly 

 on the results in the Ontario group in Caileton County. 

 Besides the Macdonald School Gardens, Nova Scotia has 



