190 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [7:7— Oct., 1911 



There are 2,000 small pines in the nursery. Dwarf and 

 pyramid fruit trees dot the orchard tracts. Early crops traced 

 their furrows in the experimental farm. Sunlight sash re- 

 vealed luxuriant growth in hot bed and cold frame. Two hun- 

 dred and forty-six plantings of sweet peas, some of fall sowing, 

 demonstrated vitality and quality for the National Sweet Pea 

 Society of America. A pergola of thirty-four cedar posts, set 

 about 15 feet apart, promised future harvests from dwarf-grown 

 fruit trees and a glory of bloom from over-arching climbers. 

 Vines starting here and there foreshadowed the beauty of their 

 later years. 



Business enterprise that it is, is it not of worth to the always 

 welcome visitor whether seeking novelty, beauty, plant lore or 

 practical help on the problems that confront the home gardener, 

 truck-farmer, breeder of livestock, lover of kennels, landscape 

 gardener, or farmer of many acres? It is an object lesson of 

 value to all teachers, not alone to those of nature study or ele- 

 mentary agriculture. 



Among the letters received by the Secretary of the Nature 

 Study Society is the following one, which will be of interest to 

 readers of the Nature Study Review, showing how completely 

 the nature study interest has circled the globe. The garden 

 (shown on page 174) will make envious some of those who 

 are struggling with school gardens in our more rigorous climate. 



Manilla, P. I., July 28, 1911. 

 The Secretary, American Nature Study Society. 



Dear Sir: Enclosed find a money order for $1.00 for mem- 

 bership fee for 1912. Glad to help along such a movement. I 

 find the Review interesting as well as instructive. The Philippino 

 teachers are greatly interested in nature study. Surely this speaks 

 well for the people in the far East. 



W. F. La POINTE. 



