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Title: The Canadian horticulturist
Identifier: canhorticulturist1903 (find matches)
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture
Publisher: St. Catherines (Ont. ) : Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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274 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIS1 rated into the organization of the school. As one writer states, " Every subject of the time-table should be modified by gar- den work, and the instruction in almost all of these should be improved by being more real and vivid and more stimulating through manual labor." Many persons will ask: " Of what value are school gardens ?" In answer to this question, the value may be stated concisely as follows: (a) It incul- cates habits of order, care, neatness and method, and forces the child into a habit of constant observation ; (b) it brings the mind into closer communion with nature ; (c) teacher and scholar are brought into closer touch; (d) physical recreation of a helpful, pleasurable nature is provided; (e) it pro- vides a hobby that may keep many from less desirable occupations during their leisure time; (f) a greater interest is taken in gar- den work in the community ; (g) indirectly, a love for home and its environments is cre- ated; (h) it gives boys and girls the rudi- ments of an industrial training which may be of value in later life. From the instructional point of view school gardens are valuable on account of the large number of special studies which may be carried on by the children in connec- tion with them. Some of these special studies are: (a) the broad distinction be- tween soils—the different kinds, and their differences as far as can be made out with- out too elaborate experiments; (b) the ger- mination of a large number of seeds, and the way the different seedlings get out of their seed coats; (c) the development of the dif- ferent flowers, the formation of the fruit and seed of the garden plants ; (d) studies of in- sects, birds, and fungus diseases which are common in every garden; (e) the record of weather conditions which influence the growth of plants, and the use of such instru- ments as the barometer and thermometer; (f) improvement of the soil by spade work, manuring and draining; (g) how plants are
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Fig 2609. School Gardens at Hartford

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