Aesthetic and Practical Uses During the war years at home there was a largo increas in the number of school gardens attached to elementary schools. The results ave been excellent, and in Bcotland the Education Department, their code of regulations for schools, recommend the forming and using of school gardens with the object of making the instruction in nature study as practical as possi-
The increased interest shown during the war in the school gardens was no doubt due to the encouragement given to the children to in-
country by learning to srease the food production of the abies. ile, the, school partes help in the study of botany and na ture, their main objects are practical—to teach the children how to grow plants, the uses of manure,
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