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woodland. It is very probable that such nursery seedlings will be 

 oiFered to schools that have shown an interest in such matters, and that 

 will be willing to protect them and study their growth. School grounds 

 may thus become object lessons in forestry for the farms of the neighbor- 

 hood. 



School gardens are now attracting much attention as an aid to 

 Nature Study, and they are encouraged by a special grant from the De- 

 partment of Education. Such 

 means improve the children as well 

 as the grounds, and have a perma- 

 nent inliuence over the whole 

 neighljoihood. 



At a recent meeting of the 

 Canadian Forestry Association in 

 Toronto a gentleman described such 

 a garden made in the grounds of 

 the school where he taught twenty- 

 five years ago. It had trees and 

 shrubs from the neighboring woods 

 and flowers grown from seeds, all 

 planted and cared for by the 

 teacher and pupils. The trees are 

 now a foot or more in diameter, 

 and farmers' wives in that section 

 still grow flowers descended from 

 the little school garden. That 

 teacher is now a member of Parlia- 

 ment for the same constituenc3% 

 well as the familiar bouquets still 

 Was it Avorth while to take a little 

 trouble with that little ^.chocl in the days when Nature Study had 

 not yet received a name '. ■ 



Our illustration shows a collection of liv^ing things with no 

 signs of life. These are cocoons of moths and butterflies gathered dur- 

 ing the wiiucr and waiting to be awakened from their sleep of transfor- 

 mation. Ill the autumn they were caterpillars ; the warmth of spring, 

 or of the school-room, will brincf them out as beautiful wing-ed creatures. 



Fig. 3. Insect life in winter. 



and deserves his promotion a- 

 brought him by his old pupils. 



