AGRICULTURE FOR SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. 21 
HOME GARDENS. 
1. Care and management of home vegetable garden. 
2. Production projects with acre or less of crop suitable to locality 
and for which there is a ready market. 
3. Correlation with canning-club work. 
4. Improvement of varieties by seed selection. 
5. Seed-growing experiments. 
6. Variety tests. 
7. Control of insects and disease. 
8. Production and sale of plants grown in hotbeds, ete. 
9. Developing city trade through parcel post. 
10. An exhibition of products grown. 
EQUIPMENT FOR HORTICULTURE. 
As the laboratory work in horticulture is essentially of a practical 
nature in which the exercises are adapted to local conditions, no 
definite list of apparatus and materials 1s possible. The work should 
be adapted to the resources of the school as well as to its needs. The 
school which owns a well-equipped farm with greenhouse, orchard, 
and garden will have the advantage; however, no school need neglect 
practical work because it does not have equipment, as it may use 
the home farms of the students and the farms surrounding the 
‘school. 
Each school should make an effort to secure the following equip- 
ment for the exercises suggested in the outline: 
Materials for hotbed, cold frames, seed flats, and window boxes. 
Budding knives, grafting chisel, pruning saws, and shears. 
Material for making grafting wax. 
A spraying outfit with. spraying materials for insect peers and plant 
diseases, 
A collection of vegetable and flower seeds, with blotters and paper 
pie plates to be used in testing. 
TEXTS AND REFERENCES FOR HORTICULTURE.! 
Bailey, L. H. Manual of Gardening. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914, 2. ed. 
Bailey, L. H. The Pruning Book. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1911, 12. ed. 
Bailey, L. H. The Principles of Fruit Growing. New York: The Macmillan Co., 
1915, rev. ed. ; 
Bailey, L. H. The New Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 6 Vols. New York, 
The Macmillan Co. Vols. I and II, 1914; Vol. III, 1915; Vols. IV and V, 1916; 
Vol. VI, 1917. 
Bailey, L. H., and Gilbert, A. W. Plant Breeding. New York: The Macmillan Co., 
1915, rev. ed. 
Brown, R.S. Modern Fruit Marketing. New York: Orange Judd Co., 1917. 
Card, F. W. Bush Fruits. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1917, rev. ed. 
Davenport, Eugene. Domesticated Annuals and Plants. Boston: Ginn & Co., 1910. 
1 These books are recommended by the Commission on Accredited Schools of the Southern States. 
