. Among School Gardens . 904, a group of school gardens wasestablished in each of the provinces of On-tario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia andPrince Edwards Island, we encounter the workof Dr. James W. Robertson,* former Commis-sioner of Agriculture and Dairying and until latelydirector of the Macdonald Fund and President ofMacdonald College at Ste. Anne de Bellevue. TheMacdonald Fund for the establishment of theMacdonald schools throughout the eastern prov-inces, Macdonald Institute at Guelph, Canada,neighbor to the Ontario Agricultural College, andMacdonald College recently established
. Among School Gardens . 904, a group of school gardens wasestablished in each of the provinces of On-tario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia andPrince Edwards Island, we encounter the workof Dr. James W. Robertson,* former Commis-sioner of Agriculture and Dairying and until latelydirector of the Macdonald Fund and President ofMacdonald College at Ste. Anne de Bellevue. TheMacdonald Fund for the establishment of theMacdonald schools throughout the eastern prov-inces, Macdonald Institute at Guelph, Canada,neighbor to the Ontario Agricultural College, andMacdonald College recently established at de Bellevue in the province of Quebec, were * Dr. Robertson is known as the Agricultural Wizard of theNorth. 13 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS the gifts of Sir William C. Macdonald of Mont-real. The Macdonald movement aims at helpingthe rural population to understand better whateducation is and what it aims at for them and theirchildren. It deals on the one side with the im-provement of homes through its preparation of. Macdonald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue. School GardenON the Group Plan teachers in domestic science and household art,and on the other with the betterment of ruralhome conditions through improvement of theschool life and modification of the curriculum tomeet the needs of rural districts. As a vitalfactor bearing upon the life of the community,and as pedagogically sound, it introduced in addi- 14 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN
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