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grounds may be enjoyed by all, also the games of planning, 

 planting, cultivation, trimming, spraying and others. 



Arranging the Program. — Teachers, principals and 

 superintendents who are willing to place school gardening on 

 the daily program will have no trouble in finding room for it. 

 The most serious difficulty in placing gardening oh the daily 

 program is found by teachers who do not have an interest in 

 such work. As the interest grows, more room for the subject 

 will be easily found. 



A very satisfactory plan is to give the subject a place on the 

 program only during the fall and spring terms> or perhaps 

 only during the spring term. A very good plan adopted in 

 some schools is to let the subject alternate with other regular 

 school subjects ; fbr example, gardening will occupy the place 

 of arithmetic on Monday, the place of language on Tuesday, 

 the place of reading on Wednesday, the place of geography on 

 Thursday and the place of history on Friday. By this arrange- 

 ment the work of .ny one subject of the program is not 

 seriously reduced, end yet the gardening is given a place daily 

 throughout any term in which such a plan is followed. If 

 objection to this is made, it is answered on the ground of 

 correlation — that is, the garden work is so related to each of 

 the other subjects as to be fully equal to it, not only in practi- 

 cal training but in actual training along the same line. The 

 gardening work will actually give training in arithmetic, in 

 language, in reading, in geography and in history. In all the 

 correlation work the subject must be changed often enough 

 to avoid any loss of interest, which might come from constant 

 repeating. 



Arithmetic. — Training in arithmetic depends very largely 

 upon the right conception of the problems involved. Abstract 

 reasoning, beyond mere number conception, is not a part of 

 true arithmetic. It belongs to higher mathematics. The 

 child must first understand the meaning of a problem before 

 he can solve it. The manipulation of numbers in an arith- 



