. The school garden - as regarded and carried on in the different Provinces. ance ofschool gardens; they provide theeasiest means for reaching all children;this work is as pleasant as it is usefulfor the pupils; through them theschoolmaster, or the schoolmistress,are able to teach the best principlesof farming and to demonstrate byobject lessons, that success in agri-culture, as elsewhere, always de-pends on the amount of care andintelligence bestowed. There were practically no schoolgardens in the province some twelveyears ago; the first were inaugur- kept, under a closer supervision fromour
. The school garden - as regarded and carried on in the different Provinces. ance ofschool gardens; they provide theeasiest means for reaching all children;this work is as pleasant as it is usefulfor the pupils; through them theschoolmaster, or the schoolmistress,are able to teach the best principlesof farming and to demonstrate byobject lessons, that success in agri-culture, as elsewhere, always de-pends on the amount of care andintelligence bestowed. There were practically no schoolgardens in the province some twelveyears ago; the first were inaugur- kept, under a closer supervision fromour district representatives and schoolinspectors. The latter have takenspecial courses at the Oka Agricul-tural Institute during the 1914 vaca-tion in order to learn the best methodsof culture, and each one of them gavea series of lectures on the teachingof agriculture in the schools whenvisiting the schools. The area of the school gardens de-pends upon the amount of land be-longing to the school trustees andteachers. On an average they measure35 x 30 feet. A large number of. SCHOOL GARDEN OF THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF STE. ANNE DE LA PERADE, QUEBEC ated by Mr. 0. E. Dalaire, Directorof the St. Hyacinthe dairy school,who was entrusted with their man-agement up to the present first reports to the departmentdate back to 1906. There were, atthat time, only twenty-eight schoolgardens in the province, distributedin eleven counties and cultivated by425 pupils; last year there were 284school gardens, distributed in 54counties and cultivated by 9,308children gardeners. Next summerwill witness a large increase in thisnumber. They will also be better domestic science schools, modelschools, high schools (academies),colleges and convents have large gar-dens with a few bee-hives, andorchard, a poultry house and aschool museum, etc. One may forman idea of our gardens by examiningthe one at the commercial collegeof the Sacred Heart, Ste. Anne de laPerade. Every year through theDepartment
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