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ground. This last is the method employed in the Broadview 

 Institute, described and illustrated on pp. 150-152 of "Public 

 School Nature Study." The best school-garden consists of a 

 common co-operative and experimental part and individual 

 plots. In the Macdonald gardens each pupil is given a plot 

 of his own, varying according to age and strength, from 

 72 square feet to 120 square feet. Instead of a single plot 

 for flowers and vegetables two half-plots may be given to 

 permit all the flower gardens to be placed together and 

 separated from all the vegetable gardens. The following, 

 from the Queen's Quarterly, is the financial statement of a 

 plot, 1 by 20 feet, at the Bowes ville school. Time is charged 

 at ten cents per hour. Early crops of radish and lettuce were 

 succeeded by beans and turnips. 



