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At the outset the proposal was to show that a 

 school garden should be no mere separate accident 

 of school routine, but an integral part of all the 

 instruction which is given there. It is an addition 

 without which each subject is less rich and varied in 

 its contents and less valued in application. 



Gardening is not so much an addition to the 

 subjects which are taught in school, but a better, an 

 improved way of teaching them. 



In conclusion, the whole value of this kind of in- 

 struction is summed up in these words of the pro- 

 foundest and most observant of English poets : — 



" Let books and nature be their early joy, 

 And knowledge rightly honoured with that name, 

 Knowledge not purchased with the loss of power". 



The great educational problem of the times is how 

 to secure the acquisition of knowledge without sacri- 

 ficing power to act. In the solution of this problem 

 one important factor will be found to be the right use 

 of a school garden. 



GEOLOGY AS A BRANCH OF NATURE- 

 STUDY 



By Prof. GRENVILLE A. J. COLE, F.G.S., M.R.LA., 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin 



Seeing that we live on the earth, that our funda- 

 mental chemical elements are derived from it, and 

 that the natural forces which we harness to do our 

 bidding are similarly dependent on terrestrial pro- 



