Yes, and agriculture ? Why not? " For lack of teachers." This is a formidable but perhaps not an insuperable obstacle. How many teachers in the public schools were qualified to teach temperance hygiene well when Mrs. Hunt began her work ? Of course very few young girls who "pass "as teachers would at present be able to give much of the needed instruction ; but suppose people are in earnest in this matter ; that they become satisfied that it will be as profitable for the children to become acquainted with nature, and interested in those occupations which large numbers of them will eventually be engaged in, as to study grammer, geography or even arithmetic, cannot some way be contrived to teach them ? Text books may not be at hand, at least till demanded ; but children can be taught a great deal orally and experimentally and to advantage. There is hardly a branch of horticultural knowledge that may not be made almost captivating to bright children by a teacher of proper qualifications, one who is wide awake, well informed, and who can impart to them his own enthusiasm.

And is there a town in which some person of this kind cannot be found, who can be hired to go from school to school and give little illustrated lectures, or talks on horticulture or agricultural topics, and occasionally to take the children out to successful farms, orchards, and gardens, to show them just what makes success in these directions ! Let him call attention to peculiarities of vegetable life, bring the strange insect into the school-room, show differentkinds of soil and tell how they came to be ; or the lime, potash and plaster used as fertilizers, tell where they came from, why they fertilize, and how plants take their food. Set the children themselves to work raising plants, catching insects, investigating, experimenting. The curiosity of childhood is good material to work with.

Is there anything that would do more to wake up mind, develop the observing facilities, educate scientists, and give education a practical direction than this ? - Mrs. M. P. A. Crozier, Michigan.