HORTICULTURE IN SCHOOLS.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7517, 5 April 1890, Page 2

HORTICULTURE IN SCHOOLS.

„"* Seaman by the natao «# vBarry delivered 'an adXVL, r toi Qardenars' . Decemberj as t. that fa V Interest, While it is ha-rdi?* - much this way in thaSftJ2l?' ,n >>* to >* * t by a gwund-work in : horticulture, botany, etc- 5/ C schools in the villages and in « *" much may be dono to Impajt7 ,«Bni S.: plants and flowers, to say no'L Jav e fn» " On the subject of school Jftseke/ 01 t old Ebley boy says: » SherbtSSSf •*• W -- only school that has pro??! > Satches of land' for schoolbov*i 'tfel £ ih schools at Ebley and Serosa }?'£*■' : tershire has, or had, a numj& '?*)£ allotments (twenty, t belleveffii£**i to two-and-a-half perches were lot out to the same namßW* rent free. I was a boy there"ftSLW 1859, and the last two jevEhSfa to hold one of these sSK^ schools were founded by the & "»£ - Benjamin Parsons, new scWi i?* 8 &» ing. opened in 1810, and n*Su**W. : allotments were provided V v?* --n time, or very shortly afterward« c „ Commenting on this "Gardening Is practised In S( H%i; north of EnglanS schools, an -f 2.V* ti, results from a profitable rwL 1 ? tpci At Eyemouth schools, boys' garden produce realLST kk value of £518s Gd per SS^mi^ « ' in the same neighborhood »,!?S £40 Is 4d. Hero, then I* affi"*- 3 -*! dence that if we wish to maSKES*' gardening is capable of K5nJ supporting." m S wades^j, The question la not nn!r»n-. t the London schools/moreS?* 1 ] *P»* growing of a few pffi ftff** 1 ? »U often contributed hy tho selves. Lord Shaitobuw% ,MI school-board, said: the London school-board IgS ,? ing the street arabs, ho ihouM nnlT siv ' isfled unless a knowW»«f-S* ot . b ?«t ties was would find sermons in bubhLrr *N the nursery of Messrs TbvnnV. «« ♦l* U £E side of that palms Wother fInSoHW s?'" were extensively used in QloKte' decorattoa, not oaly in 5 but in places of buaiuc* •_A J *ft board schools. "This latter H' says Mr Thompson, «GxdKfcK J terestverymuchrand junior member of tho firm, offered t?f-t* [ mc toaome of the school, thit S& *S ' them. I accepted his offer, and RiS ! a conveyance, tascinj? qhj'iq tUfl£ V : stance to the office of the flfci-W* ' f^,, 1 «omid palme, ferns,' • flne-foliaged plants, 1 they coufd be conveniently .W*ffi I the board schools I found aiaikrT'ai placed in all the windows, XW f f names plainly written and att»3*> * t each plant. 1 learned | teachers that the maaaof thecal!»»»*»»: great interest in the plantsTSTtSf never known to injure them. ta •&_ were changed weekly, and MeasrslK to their needs, sp that fer w«s tot j a I good condition," ' • * f , At £ _« am -- , 'i* 1 tto 'People's Ware,- L of which the'proprietor is a is Thoo». an * amiable and pfillanthrople lagllahraßn, f. plants and fine palms abound, and Mc : Thorns told mc that tiesata Thynn? -' supplied them, and gave thorn what tion they need on ver? xeaaoisabla tarn ? changing the plants irom Usaa to t'.*Po I and he said, "It is quite wonderful *vl ; an interest the men take in -shat taej c.41 ; ! 'their plants.' No one c&a walk th« r streets of Glasgow without observing tho ? 1 extent to which plants are to be scca iv ; the places of business aa compared "' any other town I have visited, sum • place as Singer's sewing-macliias -*.»*. rooms is quite a conservatory. WbaHuii ~' may signify to the minds of tay reftt?«« it ; is not for mc to say—to my own it ItapUtt \ a taste for the beautiful, to say tho ht4 ' ' of it.

01 It. "Some thirty yearsaffo.atoneetekp," ! ticultaral dinners in Edinburgh, to ka f - Dr. Nisbefc, then minister of St 01k/,'" „•> said, in response to the propyl et Eif- ' health as chaplain of the than i:> : Horticultural Society, that he felt tltt | duty to patronise horticulture, audaiffel *f 'I make it my duty to visit every to [, in- my parish once a year, and fa sc*ta| fe," get a very rude, even & thresleaias mi} <£ tion, but never in a house wheralasif.! flower in the window, if it be bat &Hi c '&• Southernwood in a broken teapot ¥k\s \k ever I see a plant I eater with a *&ci instep.' " i' Mr 0. Osman, tho manager of a %dnf School says: "I have sixty boys,intffi*£ f . visions of 80 each, for worfe and scbeol a; alternate days. Some help to milk & v cows others attend to the horses, yd '• the rest work on the ground. \»t>.; employ eleven men with so many te?« each. We cultivate about 100 mmil ground, the majority of which is us&i a growing vegetables, also we grow «6* I acres of corn* and the root crop 3 teft , cattle. Sometimes I have an extra lfi« I boys to help pick up potatoes, pull m \ . fel, etc. We have lately given a tfswom oys a small piece of ground each, to f> I tivate themselves, as an encouragentfii: for them to take m interest in %*mm f They have an hour each day for tip ; selves to dolt in, tmd wo -shall glv* f*s« \ ' for the beat and neatest Kept. 1 mf,f i would be a very good thing for all wm < to adopt a plan so that thai boys shoaw « «. taught gardening. For instance, m « |„ master take ao many boys each if, « j,\ f;lve them about an hour's fcescaitfS m L heory and practice." tThroughout France gardenia* » P'*' |> tically taught in the .primary aadjtaM* ftary schools. There are aboul MM « t these schools, each of which to ft f»s | .attached to ft, and is under •!»*«#■ | master capable of Imparting »»S | oftha first principles of c %f'f, I Even in the schaols to wb^wffi*S { attached, the theory of «gK J taught; but it has becu mm[s ft! : of PubUclostwef»*Js*s 5 number of school-gardens •awjS'OT liucreasad, and that >< pointed master of an*^M C S ;' unless he can prove r of giving practical in«twoU« g -„ *> culture, of .mother eartL i®»« i rs • Switzerland, the peasant* tt«»«ffi - thelove for horticulture wM« •*«>£ v A plot of ground, planted with »f/frit F ment of fruit trees, beiac g3Ber»»!f fg J disposal of the: schoolmaster wo-" t pupils, he will give f fog and-boddiog, explain «o j, lattve merits of the dlnVant »tlett»»g * thus- implant knowledge into tMPM , minds, which generally r" In after-life. It is to be «rf|J<gj •> that some such system «»rf%f|K -■ in the schools of our agricultural S, It would causo a dilfasipn el! p>*«*J t knowledge amongst our tWWM'SI f, -the beneficial results of wafoa It ** |, be difficult to over-estimate, , ,y f, Mr Barry then made ref««nce io American* Arbor Day.'' He«*jd AJ«J |, Day is- an expression wMA gggj V, , meaning to the mind [ Engliihschools; f tells us that the I: ful custom of planting f" flowers within the t the -general • ornameatfttioa of «»« ■ ;I!J | p premises, pre-raUs not onlj'JJgSjtW |. Ihe States of the Union, but d-&£g.;_ fc ProTfncef of the . The authorities, wo arc told■• PfS &? i 1 bor Day " to count as a | and there certainly em *,^!f a fc should not, for Its rin(^™W££ lei jare clearly not owwiy !: thei'forenoon the grounds f'V*'*,, £< ; refube removed, and bote «*»«• •* f f il ; trees, or a flower-bjd h* laid aoy» of the space is turfed or «™ *gUjpA gram While the toys are Se girls are employodl in Vgffigp b and ornamenting the arranging flowers, and to gg specimens of maps, »?» manual work. »^-SffSfSS*rf 8 * we are told, associated with tMg , class, a teacher, or a **sL°Siir «*« tV 1 The speaker is evidently»£s»£&l» thusiastic gardener but a «' themoral-aawellas fcp be gained from the patsult «» I hto perorafcfoa he Spirit which these gjtom| r | el# may have more to do than *« | appears with the fact that, Mr theoiscipllnein tho colleges 'everywhere ?Z corporal punishment; is pw«j «!/ Ilown ami in most of to• regulations Is _ ft^ ol^ 3 / & g %# Misters and roistiessejj; who Jv? f flog the f^S t 1 charge-with the only fw-« SSI toa <«» j made more ned UfiiSS^f-S j do so, the mtm Ding:aad' "JJSirj^ ences of the Kantle art U p?i-Se thOlJ* »* wiU not fail,lJ«"Meve mc,» ««**» ' that can *l2!l!i-««*»-r^