CORNELL 



R^ural ScKool Leaflet 



SUPPLEMENT FOR THE TEACHER. 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May and entered as second-class matter September 30. igo7, at the Post OflBce 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor. 

 Professors G. F. WARREN and CHARLES H. TUCK, Advisers. 



Vol. I. 



ITHACA, N. Y., APRIL, 1908. 



No. 8. 



GARDENS 



By Alice G. McCloskey 



" Ml}tn pro^l^-pie^ April, brpHSPii ttt all hta Irattt. 

 I^atb jJiit a spirit of ijnutli in fuprgtljing." — §>ljakP8pparp. 



garden is one of the best means 

 of interesting children in out-of- 

 door Hfe during the coming 

 months. In this Leaflet we shall 

 suggest ways to conduct gardens 

 in connection with schools. Gar- 

 dens in urban and suburban com- 

 munities will be of difi^erent types 

 and conducted in difi^erent ways 

 from those in rural districts, but 

 there should be gardens in some 

 form in connection with every 

 school in New York State. If there 

 is no place about the schoolhouse 

 for a garden, the inspiration and 

 instruction can be given in the 

 schoolroom for growing plants on 

 the home place. Gardening is a 

 habit. If 3'oung persons are taught 

 to garden intelligently during the 

 first five years of school life, they 

 will, in all probability, care to gar- 

 den the rest of their days. 



Many persons have failed in 

 school-gardens largely because they 

 did not give sufficient thought and 

 preparation to this important piece 

 of educational work. Some enthusi- 

 asts undertook the enterprise 

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Fig. 71. Entrance to the Ithaca scJiool- 

 garden 



