The Childrens Garden

Every young croaturc of the human race descended f'roui Adam shows is Karden origin by an instinctive Iove of stirring the soil in the season of vernal suni-hine, and of planting in it seeds and shoots. It should be the business of tho.se who are placed where they are responsible for the future common weal, to sec that all who are charged with the education of the youth of the Nation shall take especial care to cultívate this tendeney. Above every other temporal thing it has power to secure health, peace and coinpetence. A young man or wouian who has learnod to take interest in a parden and prow plants wcll, is secure from tho wosteneniiesoflife ; secure of procuriog food and clothing by direct means, if indirect ones fail ; secure of bealthful and contenting employment for mind and body, and of innocent objects of attention and interest, coumlessin number, and changing every day. Fortúnate indeed is one whose early youth has been imbued with a liking for these pursuits and pleasures, and fortúnalo tlio BOoietJ posMUÍDg ¦¦ik h members. For they are not liable to fall into the unlawful coursea whichconduct tho idle and the untrained into vice and oriiuc, and mako theiu the t-hame and the burden - and often the terror - of the industrious and the orderly. Our schools must find some way to teach the eager little ones the principies of plant irrowlh. .Muuh can be done ina city school room with small pots of soil and wedt In the country, where there are groundsfenced in, some gnettered part might ea-iily be laid off and Sivlded ly ntrfow boards nailcd on stakes driven down to keep them in place, into a row of little Iota on eaoh of whieh some easy-growing and productivo plant may be set out to show what it will do when it has room, good soil and sufficieat op)ort. On part of each lot the occupant for ,he -eason can try any of the experimenta hat children's wklmt raggWI BO freely. These will fail more or Iets, Imt their fftllure will bc a lesson. The reason will apicar ; and the reason, too, by tho strawjerry plant, (.'rown in a pot for Betting out), or the radUKea, ortomato (trained up i.-tuke), or peas, or potato, or cucumber, ir ruse, have made such complete and irnfitablc growtli ; these latter bt-ing proocted an(l cultivated under the traclici's advice and care. Such instruction is giyen n thoueands ofsohoola in other oountrièa Phere is iiniti' u nrcent need ofithere. -