. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). KiKAL School Lkailkt. 793 With songs and recitations to precede the refreshments, here is an entertainment for teachers, pupils, and parents to thoroughly enjoy, especially when it has been entirely the work of the pupils, and they are feeling to the full extent the pride and delight of ownership and accom- pHshment. V. LIFE IN THE GARDEN By Alice G. McCloskey From midsummer until late autumn the study of life in a garden
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). KiKAL School Lkailkt. 793 With songs and recitations to precede the refreshments, here is an entertainment for teachers, pupils, and parents to thoroughly enjoy, especially when it has been entirely the work of the pupils, and they are feeling to the full extent the pride and delight of ownership and accom- pHshment. V. LIFE IN THE GARDEN By Alice G. McCloskey From midsummer until late autumn the study of life in a garden affords abundant material for nature-study. It is a place in which the children may carry on their observations with- out disturbing anyone. It is their own laboratory. Here they may col- j^Lu '*7^;^;fi^6*''- ig^,^ Q^^^ investigate on their own ground. One fall day I spent an afternoon with forty public school children in one of our gardens. It was in early September. The air was cool, the sky deep blue, the garden glorious with brilliant color. The children and I sat in the assembly arbor, and discussed the garden as it lay before us. Many of the individual beds had been neg- lected, the children having been away from home during the vacation, yet the owners were interested in the things that had survived the competition of weeds and insects. Of the forty children present, I found but two who could name the flowers then in blossom in the borders on either side of the entrance walk. These fiowers were dwarf nasturtiums, bachelor's buttons, marigolds, zinnias, larkspur, and sunflowers. It seemed to me the garden was quite worth the while, if for no other reason than that these forty children should become interested in these flowers, many of which were new to them. I decided to have them spend the afternoon in making notes on the flowers that were in blossom, giving date, and facts of interest. Any child was privileged to ask the names of plants with which he was not familiar. B
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