164 THE NATURE STUDY COURSE. 



The plan given on page 163 was laid on a plot 42 ft. by 

 28 ft. (8 ft. « 1 inch). A was a plot of wheat; B, grass 

 seeded the preceding year when in wheat; C, grass to be 

 broken in the fall ; and D, root crop to be sown in the fall 

 with winter wheat. E, F, G were fields showing a different 

 kind of rotation — one suited to a stock-farm. E was oats and 

 peas followed by rape in the fall ; F, oats followed by rye in 

 the fall ; and G, rye turned down in the spring and followed 

 by corn. This is an example of a small co-operative garden 

 like the one shown opposite page 16. It may be supplemented 

 with the individual home-gardens. Conditions vary so much 

 with locality that the garden successful in one place may be 

 quite unsuited to another. 



Aim to have as fine a garden as the Bowesville one. Failing 

 that, you can surely, if you try, have one at least as good as 

 that described above. This year, 1905, the students at the 

 London Normal School laid out on a plot, 88 by 26 feet, one 

 central, circular flower bed 1 2 feet in diameter, four triangular, 

 six square, and twenty-four oblong plots, and planted therein 

 a good variety of flowers, grasses, forage plants, sweet herbs, 

 and garden vegetables not generally cultivated. See illus- 

 trations, opposite pages 16, 50, 159, 164. 



If there is not room to spare on the playground, a few 

 square rods can be rented in the corner of a field adjoining 

 the school-yard. 



Field Excursions. — Most of the outdoor studies suggested 

 in this book are supposed to be done by the pupils at home 

 or on their way to and from school. Many school-houses, 

 however, are so favorably situated for co-operative outdoor 

 work that it would seem neglect not to undertake it. Circum- 

 stances are so various that particular rules cannot be given. 

 For the sake of suggestion, what is being done in the Ottawa 



