I. View of Garden Soon After Planting 



An Indoor Garden 



Elizabeth D. Wuist, Ph.D. 



A school garden is a very important factor in Nature-Study and 

 the fact that there is no available space in the school yard need not 

 discourage the teacher, for an indoor garden is not only possible 

 but may be made fairly successful. Although an outdoor garden 

 is to be preferred yet an indoor garden offers some advantages over 

 the former as it can be started early enough in the school year to 

 give the children in most cases the opportunity of following the 

 complete life cycle of the flower or vegetable which has been 

 planted. In this way the garden may become the nucleus for a 

 complete course in Nature-Study. 



The plan for the garden here described was successfully worked 

 out, under my supervision by Miss Pearl Elger, a student in the 

 advanced course in Nature-Study at the State Normal School, 

 Milwaukee, Wis. As we were fortunate enough to have a green- 

 house twenty by eleven feet at our disposal the garden was laid 

 out in the trough along the south and west side, thus it received 

 light from the sky light and from a series of windows on the west 

 and north sides. The trough was four feet from the floor and had a 

 depth of six inches. The greenhouse was heated by steam, there- 

 fore, the temperature was more or less uniform, although in windy 

 weather there was considerable variability which proved a benefit 

 'rather than a hindrance for the growth and development of the 

 plants. 



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