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The Territorial Normal and Training School, at Honolulu, 
gives a large place to nature-study, elementary agriculture and 
school gardening. A portion of the school's land is laid off into 
gardens, and here the cadets are given practical instruction in the 
raising of crops. They are also instructed in the supervision of 
garden-work, pupils from the grades carrying on work under 
their direction. The crops are used by the domestic science de- 
partment in the preparation of the noon lunches, which are sold 
at cost price to the pupils and teachers. In the kitchen the cadet 
is thoroughly trained in the best methods of cooking and serving 
the products of her labor in the garden. The kitchen is on a self- 
supporting basis. Some typical lunches, illustrating the use of 
garden-products, are as follows: 1, tomato soup, mince pie; 2, 
meat stew, papaia sherbet, buttercup cake ; 3, vegetable salad, 
creamy rice pudding ; 4, corn chowder, strawberry ice cream, cake. 
In the classroom, the cadets are given subject-matter and 
methods of teaching the important economic plants and animals, 
and similar subjects comprising elementary agriculture. The 
plants include such types as banana, cotton, coffee, guava, papaia, 
rice, sugar-cane, sisal, taro. The industrial phases of crop-pro- 
duction are emphasized, the studies including all of the stages 
from the selection and preparation of the land to the final trans- 
portation and marketing of the crop. 
Teachers who are interested in school-garden work can avail 
themselves of assistance from a number of sources. The Col- 
lege of Hawaii offers two correspondence courses in this field, 
one in plant life, another in practical horticulture. The Normal 
School in 1910 issued a "Synopsis of Nature-study Work for the 
Elementary Schools of Hawaii," of 150 pages. The publications 
of the Federal Experiment Station contain much practical infor- 
mation. The Department of Public Instruction issues a monthly, 
''Hawaii's Young People," a portion of which covers nature-study 
subjects. The Territorial Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry 
furnishes seedling trees, vegetable seeds and similar material 
gratis to teachers. 
The school-gardens of Hawaii are a part of the forward move- 
ment in education. They are supplanting the medieval bookish- 
ness of former days. They stand for the beauty and dignity of 
real things. They are simple. They are within the child's realm. 
Their pleasant influences reach into his heart through the happy 
labor of his hands. They typify fundamental institutions. 
The school garden has a broad outlook toward life. It is 
optimistic. It is bound to survive. 
