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How the garden will furnish material of educational value, alive 

 with interest, which will aid and inspire the regular classroom 

 studies of reading, writing, arithmetic, language, drawing, 

 geography, and history. 



Instruction will be given, by lectures, practice work, and 

 reading, in those subjects needed by teachers in school garden 

 work, and connected classroom experiments. 



Laboratory and garden tools will be supplied without charge. 



The fee for each course will be twenty-five dollars, which will 

 include necessary materials and supplies. 



A certificate will be awarded by The New York Botanical 

 Garden to students satisfactorily completing the course. 



Lectures. 30 one-hour periods. 



Introduction. The school garden an educational laboratory, 



planned for the child's development. The teacher's atti- 

 tude. 

 Correlation. Examples of how to use the garden problems in 



classroom work. 

 Planning the School Garden. The ground plan and planting 



scheme. 

 Soil and fertility. Fertilizers and manures. 

 Seeds. Selection. Germinating. Planting. Transplanting. 



Thinning. Proper spacing. 

 Relation of water, air, sunlight to the garden. 

 Insects and animals of the garden. 

 Hygiene and physical culture lessons drawn from the garden 



work and study, to be applied by the teacher in guiding the 



child at work, and in talks in the classroom. 

 Studies of growing plants. Lessons in observation. 

 Short histories of several vegetables. • Uses. 

 Elementary forestry and soil conservation. 



Garden Practice. 30 one-hour periods. 



Spading, raking, hoeing, cultivating, planting, thinning, trans- 

 planting, weeding. Weed and insect studies. Harvesting 

 and exhibit preparation. General and special observation. 



