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GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 
here that a gray- and ancient churchyard has lately been 
turned into a recreation ground for childrend God’s acre, as 
the Germans call a cemetery, would thus seem to have become 
God’s acre in very truth. This charming spot includes flower 
beds, old trees, and a little nature-study museum. Classes of 
children visit this garden regularly, and with the help of a 
teacher their eyes are opened to the wonder of the natural 
objects that surround them. 
In various home schools beekeeping is taken up more 
seriously than has been found practical in day schools. The 
children are disciplined by the responsibility, and they learn 
something of this useful industry. At an English school, for 
example, situated in the beautiful region of Petersfleld, the 
writer saw five prosperous hives. The entire care of these was 
intrusted to the boys and girls ; for a period of one term three 
or four pupils took charge. Their report of bee culture for the 
summer term, published in their school paper,^ begins thus.: 
"This year we fed the bees very early, giving them candy, and 
so they were in splendid condition by the time the Dutch clover, 
which is the chief honey supply in this district, came out.’’ 
Then follows an entertaining account of the methods 
employed in managing the brood, introducing a new queen, 
and in swarming, the text being supplemented by a telling 
photograph called " Hiving the Swarm.’’ The report ends 
with a close estimate of the total yield of honey, which they 
expected, that season, to bring up to one hundred pounds. 
It is easy to see how an interest in beekeeping, if awakened 
in connection with school gardening, may some day introduce 
a lad or lass into an occupation that will bring him a hand- 
some profit. A well-known Cincinnati man makes a living 
from bees which he keeps on the roof of his house. Another 
in New York City, one of the large dealers in beekeeping 
1 Miss Susan B. Sipe, Washington, D.C. Bedales Record. 
