APPENDIX 
NOTES FOR TEACHERS OF HORTICULTURE 
I.— THE SCHOOL GARDEN 
To make the teaching of Horticulture as thorough and as highly 
educative as possible the greatest care should be exercised in making the 
arrangements for planning the school garden. 
Where the headmaster or an assistant is qualified to teach gardening 
it is very desirable that the class should be under his charge, but where 
this is not the case, a thoroughly good local gardener should be employed 
for a year or two, with the assistance of the school teacher under whose 
charge the class would ultimately be placed. The teacher can assist the 
gardener by maintaining discipline, and helping to correlate school work 
with the gardening operations. He would, at the same time, be qualifying 
himself to take charge of the class. This should be supplemented by 
special studies for a season or two. 
The size of the garden should be carefully considered by the county 
instructor and the schoolmaster before anything further is done. The 
county instructor should consider the position of the ground — which in all 
cases should be near the school — the shelter, and the nature of the soil, 
while the schoolmaster should furnish details with regard to the boys or 
girls, as to their industry and enthusiasm, &c. No more should be 
attempted than can be carried out successfully by the class. There is a 
tendency, by those who do not understand the great amount of work 
necessary to teach gardening successfully, to cram too much into the time 
at the disposal of the gardening class. The consequence is that a great 
amount of the educational value of gardening is lost. From one to two 
hours a week is not a long time in which to get out the tools for fourteen 
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