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gent work with simplo nppliancos and oqiiipniont. Instruction is 

 given in woodworking, basketry, cooking, sewing, and gardening, in 

 about 50 scliools, many of which are in the vicinity of llu' truck- 

 growing farms by wiiich tiiis region is well known. Miss Ellen 

 Taylor is employed as superintendent, and })lans the courses and 

 visits the schools to see that the instruction is regularly and properly 

 given. 



A notable instance of school gardening on a large scale is found in 

 the farm garden established in 1!)02 by Mrs. Henry Parsons, in 

 DeWitt Clinton Park, New York City. This park is one of the 

 l)ui)lic i)laygronnds under the supervision of the city park depart- 

 ment. It is located in a very thickly populated section of the city, 

 between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues and Fifty-third and Fifty- 

 fourth streets. The tract com])rises 7 acres, and includes play- 

 grounds, a running track, a pavilion, and pergola, besides a farm 

 garden. The pavilion is equipped with shower baths and school- 

 rooms for indoor gynmasium and kindergarten exercises. The ui)j)er 

 floor is set aside as a recreation place for mothers and small children, 

 and looks out on the Hudson River. The i^ergola. which is near the 

 river, has a roof of sunnner-house construction. The basement of the 

 pergola is to be used for the children and teachers in connection with 

 the farm garden. The tract site cost $1,272,385, and the buildings 

 have been provided at an additional expense of $203,300. Mrs. Par- 

 sons secured permission from the park commissioner to carry on the 

 farm garden as an experiment while the track was yet incomplete. 

 The experiment proved successful, and under the jiresent adminis- 

 tration the farm garden became a regular feature of the i)ark work. 

 The position of director of playgrounds and children's farm schools 

 has been created under the city park department, with a salary of 

 $2,500 per annum. 



During the past year the garden area has been divided into 458 

 small i)lats. "" Under the supervision of competent teachers seeds 

 were sown, and the little farmers tended their plats from sowing time 

 to the harvest. Several crops were harvested — there being a rotation 

 of farmers as well as of crops — and, in all, about 2,500 children have 

 enjoyed the advantages afforded by this odd school." The crops 

 grown in li>05 were radishes, peas, beets, carrots, corn, lettuce. j\nd 

 onions. The garden comprises about 1 acre. Children fi-om 14 

 schools worked in the garden, and 15 schools sent visiting classes. 

 Adult classes also came from normal schools in >Hew ^'ork and 

 Brooklyn. 



"In conjunction with the farm gai'den has been coiiducled a school 

 of household industi'V whei'e yomig girls were (aught hou-chold 

 duties, the boys being assigned to the heavier chores; and more than 



