Show schoolboy gardeners gardener over in russia many of the schools have connected with them small gardens orchards or grape arbors in which the boys and girls are taught to work each day the schoolmaster who has charge of the garden takes his pupils out and teaches them how to plant hoe boe rake and reap in the i south of russia where the country is almost treeless the children learn how bow I 1 to set out trees and what the best kinds aie and in so some me provinces there is a com complete silkworm m colony in each school and add the pupils watch the wonderful little silk makers eat the mulberry leaves and spin their cocoons and help all they can in the work ot of caring for the colony at other schools bees are kept and the boys and girls learn to handle them and guard them while they are honey moneymaking making in this way the boys and girls of russia by the time they have finished their school work know a good deal about some pursuits which will help them to make a living how would you yon enjoy some of these things iii in connection with your school |