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23. Sweet Corn, Country Gentleman. 
24. Okra, White Velvet. 
A LIST OF BOOKS RELATING TO SCHOOL GARDENS. 
1. The Nature-Study Idea. L. H. Bailey. Doubleday, Page 
and Company, New York. 1905. 
2. Nature-Study and Life. Clifton H. Hodge. Ginn & Com- 
pany, Boston. 1903. 
3. Agricultural Education, including Nature Study and School 
Gardens. James Ralph Jewell. 2nd edition, revised. Govt. 
Printing Office, Washington. 1908. 
4. School Gardens. B. T. Galloway. Govt. Printing Office, 
Washington. 1905. 
5. School Gardening and Nature Study in English Rural 
Schools and in Eondon. Vliss Susan B. Sipe. Govt. Printing 
Office, Washington. 1909. 
6. Children’s Gardens. Henry Saxton Adams. Trans. Mass. 
Hort. Soc., 1907. Part II, Boston, 1908. 
7. How to Make a School Garden. Plemenway. Doubleday, 
Page and Company, New York. 
OUTLOOK FOR SCHOOL-GARDEN WORK. 
The outlook for school-garden work in the Territory of 
Hawaii is indeed bright. The movement, already well estab- 
lished, and recognized as an essential factor in the education 
of these peoples, will continue to develop healthily, as the 
whole school system normally develops. The work here is 
by no means perfect. There are many gaps to be filled, 
many problems unsolved, especially with regard to the ac- 
tual teaching. One must constantly bear in mind that he is 
not raising plants, but children ; and that his success is to 
be measured, not by bushels of beans, but by human lives. 
The center of the garden is the soul of the child. It should 
be, in verity and truth a kindergarten, a child-garden. This 
is no. easy task. Bringing a rare fruit to maturity is mere 
toying compared to the mighty task of perfecting and en- 
riching a child’s soul — rarest, most fragile, blossom- of all. 
The difficulty is many times multiplied, if the child belongs 
to another race. But the gardening instinct is strong in all 
children. Perhaps it is remnant of the garden paradise from 
which the souls of children come. This island-world is a 
land run riotous with green, — heaven-climbing valleys livid 
with green tropical tangles, — white glistening coral sands 
fringed with waving cocopalms ; wdde plains of undulating 
feathery foliage — love of these is the child’s right. We are 
told that paradise was a garden ; perhaps our children shall 
come through green gardens, back to Paradise again. 
