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box shucks. The Waiahia Agricultural Company will pay for 
three men for the month of April, two at $33.00 and one at 
$30.00, leaving a balance of $22.00 for box shucks, making a 
total of $118.00 for 118,000 plants delivered to date. The bal- 
ance of the plants, namely 32,000 Ironwood, will, at the request 
of Mr. Goodale, be supplied next w^inter. The order for the Ho- 
nolulu Plantation is completed, with the exception of a few boxes 
of Ironwood which will, at the request of the manager, be fur- 
nished later. 
Since the end of December only one man has been employed in 
the work of attending to the grounds at the Government Nurs- 
ery. He, with the help of two prisoners, has to keep the grounds 
and walks in as good condition as possible. In the Nursery one 
man'is kept making boxes, potting and transplanting. Barbaso, 
the other man, who spent part of his time assisting in keeping the 
grounds in condition and also assisting in potting and packing up 
plants, was discharged at the end of the year, leaving just one 
man for the plants and one for the grounds. 
Experiment Garden, Makiki. — One man was discharged at the 
end of December, leaving two men to do the work. All the soil 
used for seed boxes and potting at the garden and also at the 
Government Nursery is carted from Punchbowl after which it 
IS mixed with sand and manure and then sterilized. This entails 
a good deal of work, both for the two men and also the wagon 
driver. The latter spends most of his time carting soil, sand, and 
firewood, also plants to and from the Nursery as well as plants 
sent to the other islands. 
A large number of species of pAicalyptus, new to the Territory, 
are being propagated at the garden for the Federal Experimental 
planting. i 
THE USE OF PLANT MATERIALS IN NATURE 
STUDY TEACHING. 
By Professor Vaughan MacCaughey, 
College of Hawaii. 
The teaching of nature-study, — sympathy with the things 
of the out-of-doors, — has now a recognized position in the 
curricula of the elementary schools. The general principles 
of such teaching are well-defined, and its interrelations with 
other school activities have been elucidated by pedagogs of 
renown. Questions of special method and special materials, 
being more localized in their applications, dififer widely in 
various regions. Lessons concerning the autumnal coloration 
of foliage, the crystalline structure of snow flakes, or the hi- 
bernating habits of amphibia, w^ould be obviously inappro- 
priate in the schools of Hawaii. 
