SCHOOL GARDENING.

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School Gardens.
No account of elementary education in Ceylon would be
complete without some reference to school gardens. During
the last three years an attempt, and so far a very successful
attempt, has been made to make gardening a part of the work
in Government vernacular schools. The system is one of
the many debts which the Department owes to its late

SCHOOL GARDENING.

Director, Mr. 8. M. Burrows. In each Province schools have
been selected in which the conditions necessary for successful
gardening are present, viz., a suitable site with sufficient land
and a teacher capable of directing the work. Seeds and
implements are supplied by the Department : the produce is
divided between masters and boys. Special attention is given
to the cultivation of vegetables, which is much neglected in
many parts of the Island ; and through the school gardens
useful vegetables have been introduced into many districts in
which they were almost unknown before. The scheme is
ander a Superintendent of School Gardens aided by an
Assistant, both of whom travel round, visit each existing
sarden as often as possible, and select new schools. A stock
rarden has been established in Colombo : from this seeds and