FLOWER GARDEN AND LA WN. 



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the conditions 

 that prevail at 

 present in rural 

 school sections ; 

 while Fig. 2496 

 shows what a 

 desirable change 

 a little taste in 

 planning and 

 planting will pro- 

 duce. 



BOYS' AND 



GIRLS' 

 CtARDENS. 



INHERE is a 

 wide-spread 

 movement to de- 

 velop a taste for 

 gardening in 

 children. In Day- 

 ton, Ohio, forty 

 boys' gardens 

 were established 



in 1900, and the number was increased in 

 1 90 1 to seventy-four, each 10 x 130 

 feet. A course of two years' garden- 





Fig. 2494. Woodland Park, Hamilton. 



was one of the worst parts of the city, now 

 it is one of the very best, and its change ot 

 name to South Park is indicative of the 

 change wrought in every condition. Three 

 of the worst boys were got rid of, and the 

 rest were formed into clubs and brigades, 

 and were given gardens and taught to re- 

 spect themselves and the rights of others. 

 Then the land rose from $300 a lot to three 

 times that amount ; and the $3,500 put into 

 garden work carried on by the boys is said 



Fig. 2495. A Country School House with Neg- 

 lected Surroundings. 



and each boy com- 

 gets a certificate. 



ing is mapped out, 



pleting the course 



Clapp, chairman of a committee of the 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, says, 



" The result of this garden work at Dayton 



has been most extraordinary. Slidertown 



Fig. 2496. The Same Improved. 



