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gardening may be used as an incentive to classes for the com- 

 pletion of the other work. Teachers may plan with the pupils 

 how much of a subject is to be learned in a certain week. If 

 this work is well done in four days, the lesson time on the 

 fifth day may be used in the garden. (4) Some teachers use 

 a " credit mark " system and allow pupils a certain length of 



Fig. 157. — A nature study lesson in the garden. Insects and plant diseases may best 

 be studied in gardens. (Illinois Normal University, Normal, Illinois.) 



time in the garden for a given number of credit marks earned 

 the other school work. (5) Instead of having special liter- 

 ary programs Priday afternoons throughout the year, as prac- 

 ticed in some schools, the time is used in the garden^ during 

 the spring and fall seasons. (6) Some teachers have found 

 the interest in the beautifying of the school grounds great 

 enough to cause the pupils to use much of their recreation 

 time in the planting work. This may be objectionable in the 

 minds of some, but the real difference between work and play 

 is in the interest taken. The " game " of cleaning up the 



