150 NA T VRE-ST UD Y LESSONS. 



(c) Slipping, layering, budding and grafting. 



(d) Artificial pollination, starting or improving varie- 



ties. 



(e) Rotation of crops. 



(/") Learning the appearance and testing the hardiness, 

 etc., of plants or varieties of plants not generally 

 known in the neighborhood. 

 (£■) Experimenting upon the cultivation of wild flowers 



and wild fruits. 

 (/t) Identification and remedial treatment of insect 



and fungal enemies of plants. 

 Let us try to hasten the time when every pupil will 

 have his own division of the school garden in addition 

 to the general one. Every child who can have a little 

 plot for a garden of his own at home should enter at once 

 upon its possession and cultivation. A child cannot find 

 a pleasanter, happier or more profitable way of spending 

 his leisure than in attending to his own little garden. 



The plot on the following page is 28 ft. by 42 ft. ; scale, 

 8 ft. to the inch. A, B, C, D are four fields to illustrate 

 rotation of crops every cycle of four years. A is wheat ; 



B, meadow of timothy and clover (sown with the wheat); 



C, meadow, broken up in the fall ; D, corn or root crop, 

 sown in the fall, if crop is off in time, with fall wheat. 



E, F and G show a rotation for a stock farm. E is 

 oats and pease followed by rape in the fall ; F is oats 

 followed by rye in the fall ; G is the rye turned down in 

 the beginning of summer and followed by fodder corn. 



Turnips follow lettuce and spinach follows radish in 

 the same year. 



I. Criticise the size, plan and contents of this plot with 

 reference to suitability for your school. 



