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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7066, 27 January 1933, Page 6

When it was suggested at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture that name labels should bo placed on all trees, etc., in school gardens, one delegate wanted to know how it would bo possible to prevent tho labels being removed by the children; his experience had been that labels in school gardens had a very short life, and bo believed this experience to be worldwide. Other speakers, however, contended that such a state of affairs reficctcd adversely on the discipline of the school and on the headmaster, neither did it say much for our future citizens. It was also urged that articles on elementary botany, with illustrations, should bo published in the School Journal. “What’s the use?” queried a delegate, “when botany is going to be taken out of tho matriculation syllabus and that hybrid, domestic science, substituted for it?”