. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 119 And some parents will connive with their children to devise excuses. The school garden is in the same category as nature study, manual training and domestic science. In fact, it furnishes the most rational basis for nature study work. It furnishes the growling plant in an environment much more natural than the fiower pot in the school room, and much more available for city children than the virgin forest or the open field. Xature study excurs
. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 119 And some parents will connive with their children to devise excuses. The school garden is in the same category as nature study, manual training and domestic science. In fact, it furnishes the most rational basis for nature study work. It furnishes the growling plant in an environment much more natural than the fiower pot in the school room, and much more available for city children than the virgin forest or the open field. Xature study excursions are in many localities impracticable, and in all cities they make relatively heavy demands upon the time of the school children. The school garden is near at hand, always Childrens' gardens overlooking the Hudson River in New York City. The chickens are given a daily walk in the garden. and the time devoted to it need be no greater than is now given to ''waking-up exercises" or other diversions intended to relieve the monotony of study. School gardening should be put on the same basis in our schools as manual training and domestic science. To a limited extent it should be required of every pupil in the lower grade, but further than that it should be made optional, just as manual training and domestic science are now optional in many of our best city schools. Not every boy is interested in manual training, not every girl in cooking or sew-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Dept. of Agriculture. Augusta : [State of Maine, Dept. of Agriculture
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