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thus using the school house wall for the main wall of the greenhouse. 

 This is a great saving in construction. 



This greenhouse is 20 ft. long, 13 ft. wide, and 9 1-3 ft. high 

 on the school house wall. It is heated by hot water from a hot 

 water plant within the school building. 



Editorial 



School Gardening in America 



The most notable recognition of the School Garden Movement 

 during the last year has been the establishment of a department 

 of School Gardens by the United States Bureau of Education. 

 This department proposes to employ two or three people to assist 

 in promoting the movement everywhere in the United States. 

 It is not only an official recognition but a commanding endorse- 

 ment . 



The growth of school gardens in America has shown during the 

 last three years a much more steady advance than ever before. 

 The effort on the part of ephemeral workers to take advantage 

 of this movement for personal exploitation is not so marked as in 

 former years. There are a number of real and carefully planned 

 systems of school gardening now in operation. The Boards of 

 Education of the following cities are committed to school 

 gardening and are supporting them to a marked degree. 



Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., Sacramento, 

 St. Paul, Cleveland, Kansas City, Mo., Providence, R. I., Dayton, 

 O., and Cincinnati, are cities which have already established school 

 gardening some to a very great extent. 



School garden directors have been employed throughout the 

 season in most of these cities. 



School gardens have also been developed to a considerable 

 extent in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Mich., Superior, Wis., 

 Lincoln, Nebr., Dubuque, la., Salt Lake City, Richmond, Va., 

 Memphis, Tenn., Louisville, Ky., Athens, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., NewHaven, Conn., Rochester, N.Y., Boston and 

 a number of other cities in Massachusetts, New York, Yonkers, 

 Poughkeepsie and Albany in New York State. In fact, the time 

 has arrived when nearly every city in the United States and in 

 Canada have done something in children's gardens. It has either 



