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becoming tlie outer classroom of tlie school, and tlie plots 

 are its blackboards. The garden is not an innovation, or 

 an excrescence, or an addendum, or a diversion. It is a 

 happy field of expression, an organic part of the school in 

 which the boys and girls work among growing things 

 and grow themselves in body and mind and spiritual 

 outlook. 



The true relation of the garden to the school has been 

 in good part established by the travelhng instructors 

 whom Professor Kobertson appointed to supervise the v,^ork 

 in each province. These instructors were chosen as teachers 

 of experience in rural schools, and were sent for special 

 preparation, at the expense of the Macdonald fund, to 

 Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, and Clark universities, and to 

 the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. 



THE SCHOOL GARDENS OP CAELETON COUNTY, ONTARIO 



The county of Carleton was selected by Prof. Robertson 

 for the initiation of school gardens in Ontario, and the work 

 that is being carried on here is typical of what is being 

 done in the other four provinces. In all five gardens have 

 been established under the Macdonald fund in Carleton 

 County. Two of these are placed at Carp and Galetta, 

 points on the Canada Atlantic Railway, distant twenty 

 and thirty-three miles respectively from Ottawa. A third 

 is located at Richmond, a small incorporated village in the 

 heart of the county, distant from the capital about twenty 

 miles by stage. The remaining gardens are situated at 

 North Gower and Bowesville, the former about twenty- 

 five miles and the latter five miles from the city. As the 



