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How, by proper planning, a teacher may take a full class into 
the garden and do effective work in the 
ey 
ordinary cle period. 
the garden will furnish materia 
1 value, alive 
with interest, which will aid and inspire the regular cacstoams 
studies of reading, writing, arithmetic, language, drawin 
geography, and history. 
Instruction will be given, by lectures, practice work, and 
reading, in those subjects needed aS te ae rs in school garden 
work, and connected classroom ex 
Laboratory and garden tools will be a without charge. 
e fee for each course will be twenty-five dollars, which will 
include necessary materials and supplies. 
ertificate will be awarded by T w York Botanical 
ee to students ae completing . course. 
LECTURES. 30 one-hour a 
gine The school garden an educational laboratory 
ned for the pa s development. The teacher’s atti- 
ude. 
Correlation. Examples of how to use the garden problems in 
classroom work. 
Planning the School Garden. The ground plan and planting 
scheme. 
Soil and fertility. Fertilizers and manures. 
eeds. Selectio: erminatin: Planting. Transplanting. 
hinning ng. 
Relation of water, air, sunlight to the garden. 
Insects and animals of the garden. 
Hygiene and free culture lessons drawn from the garden 
work a - tudy, to be applied by the teacher in guiding the 
child at work, and in eee in the classroom. 
Studies af se plants. Lessons in observation 
Short histories of several vegetables. Uses. 
Elementary forestry and soil conservation. 
GARDEN PRACTICE. 30 one-hour per: 
Spading, raking, hoeing, clvatig, slang thinning, trans- 
planting, weeding. Weed and insect studies. arvesting 
and exhibit preparation. Genera it and special observation. 
