8o State Horticultural Society. 



SCHOOL GARDENING. 



(By Lizzie Rubart, Columbia, Mo.) 

 Tlie word gardening has at different times in different countries 

 had a variety of meanings. It has been made to cover the growing of 

 almost everything in the vegetable world. At the present time, in a 

 general way, it may be applied in the same sense, but is classified for 

 horticultural purposes, according to the products grown into four gen- 

 eral divisions: (i) fruit gardening, (2) kitchen or vegetable gardening, 

 (3) flower gardening, (4) landscape gardening. 



Fruit gardening is more commonly called fruit-growing or pomology, 

 and is divided into orchard or tree fruits, vine fruits and small fruits. 



Kitchen gardening or vegetable gardening includes the growing of 

 all products for table use, aside from those included in pomology. 



Flower gardening is the growing of ornamentals valued for their 

 bloom and foliage. 



Landscape or ornamental gardening is the arranging and growing 

 of plants for artistic effects, and may include any or all classes of plants. 

 Fruit and kitchen gardening are practiced mainly for the purpose of 

 pleasing the appetite and supplying the physical wants. 



Flower and landscape gardening are practiced mainly for the purpose 

 of pleasing the eye and developing the aesthetic tastes. Both are essential 

 and both so interblend that no dividing line can be drawn between the 

 useful and the ornamental. The hand of the artist may arrange the fruit or 

 vegetable garden, making it equally beautiful with the flower or landscape 

 garden. There is nothing in plant life intrinsically more beautiful than 

 our fruit trees, grape vines, bush fruits and brambles, and nothing can be 

 made to please the aesthetic tastes more when rightly arranged. Begin- 

 ning with the pink and white blossoms and unfolding leaves of spring, 

 followed by the succession of ripening fruits, the greens, yellows, russets 

 and reds of the apple and pear, the varied hues of the plums and cherries, 

 the shining currants, red and white, like strings of gems, suspended in 

 the leafy green, and the clusters of many colored grapes, hanging in the 

 graceful vines and foliage. And in our vegetables the plumey sprays of 

 asparagus and the fern-like leaves of the carrot may be so arranged that 

 they will rival in beauty expensive hot house ferns, and to the true lover 

 of nature are no less attractive because they also supply a useful product. 

 The rich green leaves of the sweet potato vine are equally or more beauti- 

 ful than the Madaria vine. The broad succulent leaves of the rhubarb 



