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At work — Here and there Junior Garden3rs are seen assisting 



absent; Number 3 checks his attendance, and so on. We have 

 found this a good method because it throws the work upon the 

 children. This attendance later on is put into a book by the 

 teacher or by an older boy or girl. The book must be neat as our 

 work must be properly done. After the lad has registered, you may 

 see him walk up to a German helmet and drop a few pennies into 

 it. This is the way we take of raising money for our French orphan . 

 All kinds of little classes for study may be formed out of a garden 

 group. Vacation possibilities are posted up on the bulletin board 

 the last week in June. These possibilities are as follows : Study 

 of trees, common weeds, flowering plants, insect pests, moths and 

 butterflies. Having signed up for one of these classes, and each 

 class is divided and sub -divided intil it has no more than ten mem- 

 bers for each teacher, a day is assigned and an hour when these 

 boys and girls meet their teachers. In the tree class leaves are 

 mounted and the fruits are gathered as the fall goes on. This 

 study often continues into the winter and spring when the twigs 

 are mounted and the flowers are forced out of their buds. Com- 

 mon weeds are mounted and their relatives hunted up in the 

 vegetable garden and flower border if relatives they have. Riker 

 mounts are used for our moth and butterfly specimens. Children 

 are taught how to stretch their moths and butterflies and then how 

 to mount them in good shape. 



