. The school garden - as regarded and carried on in the different Provinces. $ap 1| /wjf. RURAL SCIENCE STUDENTS WORKING ON SCHOOL GARDEN, NORMAL COLLEGE GROUNDS, TRURO, portant consideration, is that itvitalizes school work. The prin-ciples of mechanical drawing aremastered while drawing a plan of thegarden to scale. Business methodsare learned when buying the seeds;and, later in the year, when bankingthe profits. Many a boy gets hisfirst lesson in good manners and first step toward field botany. Thecontrol of these leads at once toeconomic botany. What better arithmetic problemscan be g


. The school garden - as regarded and carried on in the different Provinces. $ap 1| /wjf. RURAL SCIENCE STUDENTS WORKING ON SCHOOL GARDEN, NORMAL COLLEGE GROUNDS, TRURO, portant consideration, is that itvitalizes school work. The prin-ciples of mechanical drawing aremastered while drawing a plan of thegarden to scale. Business methodsare learned when buying the seeds;and, later in the year, when bankingthe profits. Many a boy gets hisfirst lesson in good manners and first step toward field botany. Thecontrol of these leads at once toeconomic botany. What better arithmetic problemscan be given than the boys ownproblems to find how much seed orhow much fertilizer his garden re-quires, when the tabulated amountsgiven are per acre? 20 Relation of the School garden to the Class Room 21 The insect pests furnish goodlessons on entomology. The insecti-cides and fungicides form a naturalbasis for lessons in chemistry. Thecovering of plants to protect fromlate spring frosts introduces a phaseof physical geography not oftenwell taught. The written descriptions of gardenoperation


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