wuist] AN INDOOR GARDEN 309 



As Miss Elger was especially interested in model school grounds 

 a complete school ground, including yard, playgrounds and garden 

 were included in the plan. It was decided, owing to lack of room, 

 that the entire space devoted to the school grounds should be 

 divided as follows: yard proper 2 ft. by 1 ft. 8 inches; play- 

 grounds 2 ft. 6 in. by 1 ft. 8 in. ; garden 5 ft. 3 in. by 1 ft. 8 in. 



The trough was filled with rich loamy soil and cultivated with 

 small tools until it was very fine. The plots were laid off and raised 

 about 2 in. A space of 2 in. was left between each plot to repre- 

 sent paths. Only one vegetable seed and in most cases only one 

 flower seed was planted in each plot. A plot, along the wall, 2^2 

 in. in width and extending almost the whole length of the garden 

 was devoted to sunflowers and morning glories; the latter were 

 trained up on strings fastened to the wall. A trellis, with a grape 

 vine was represented at one end of the garden by twisting a piece 

 of a wild grape vine around a frame. The strawberry plot was 

 planted with a wild strawberry plant although later a cultivated 

 variety was substituted. Cuttings of currant and raspberry 

 bushes were placed in wet sand until the leaves began to unfold 

 when they were placed in the garden in the plots assigned to them. 

 Small branches of Arbor Vitas were used to form a hedge separating 

 the garden from the school yard, and to illustrate a wind break for 

 the garden. A small schoolhouse constructed of pasteboard was 

 placed on a stone foundation in the center of the school yard, while 

 a miniature bird house constructed of paper was erected near by. 

 Two flower beds were made on the east side of the scho'olhouse. 

 On the one was placed a narcissus and a hyacinth bulb. These 

 were later replaced by asters. The other flower bed was devoted 

 to a pansy and a poppy. Wild flowers, hepaticas, spring beauties 

 from the woods were planted close to the hedge so that they would 

 be slightly protected. Branches of the desired trees and shrubs 

 were placed, each in a separate bottle of wet sand and these bottles 

 were buried in the soil wherever it was decided that a tree should 

 stand. The following trees and shrubs were used and proved 

 satisfactory for this purpose : box elder, red maple, elm, oak, lilac, 

 spireae, forsythia and snow ball. 



The playgrounds were sanded and miniature apparatus set up. 



It is hardly possible that public schools would have a greenhouse 

 but that fact need not prevent the successful working out of a 

 modification of this general plan. A sand table, long boxes or even 



