Abstract
MESSRS. Elford and Heaton have had very considerable experience in organising school gardens and making them fit into the educational scheme, and they have produced a volume which has already proved its usefulness, so that it now passes into a second edition. The authors insist that the combination of School Gardening and Nature Study when properly co-ordinated with the rest of the work in the school can be, and often are, a valuable means of education. Most teachers would agree, but difficulties do undoubtedly arise when an attempt is made to put this excellent general principle into practice. Given a plot of ground, a class, and a limited but definite time each week, how is the teacher to proceed in order that the children may derive the maximum educational benefit? The practical details that need attention, the pests, weeds, and other troubles that are likely to cause trouble, and the many difficulties that crop up as soon as one begins to cultivate the soil, are effectively dealt with. The authors urge that a school reference library might with advantage be formed, but they give no suggestions to this end. In a future edition a list of suitable books might well be added.
Practical School Gardening.
P.
Elford
S.
Heaton
By. Second Edition. Pp. 224. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1921.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Practical School Gardening . Nature 109, 514 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109514a0
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