Rural School Leaflet 



763 



a rural school garden 



Florence Ware 

 (A Young Gardener) 



On January 29, 1909, we celebrated Corn Day here at our school, with 

 appropriate exercises. During the exercises our trustee spoke to us. We 

 enjoyed all he said, but the part that interested us the most and for which 

 we felt the most thankful was his plan to rent a piece of ground near the 

 school, for us to use as a school garden. He said he would divide it into 

 plots four feet by twenty feet and give each of us a plot to work, as our 

 own little garden, and would give us twenty-five cents each with which to 

 buy our seeds. He asked each of us to raise one hill of corn on our plot, and 

 he offered a prize of one dollar to the pupil who raised the best com. We 

 bought our seeds early in the spring of James Vick's Sons, of Rochester. 



In April the ground was plowed and divided into plots. The plots 

 were numbered and each child drew a number, and then the children 

 went out and each claimed the plot that had the number corresponding 

 with the nvimber he drew. 



