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A RURAL SCHOOL-GARDEN 



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In our care for orderly arrangement and neatness we aim at the 

 improvement of grounds around the rural schools to which many 

 of the students go as teachers. 



A garden for the training of teachers of nature-study. Johnson (Vt.) Normal School. 



The school-garden has revived much interest in the cultivation 

 of plants. Though Vermont is quite prosperous agriculturally, 

 there are some communities where there is need of new life to 

 break up the industrial stagnation which has crept into the less 

 populous districts of the state. 



For two years a school-garden was kept by the children of the 

 Training School. A description of this garden and its aims has 

 been published by the State Department of Education and can be 

 secured by writing to the Superintendent of Education, Mont- 

 pelier, Vt. 



