26 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1904. 



Lessons are given to the whole class and all of the work is 

 clone by the pupils; spading, spreading fertilizer, measuring, 

 planting, hoeing, weeding, watering, — every part of the work, 

 in fact. This I insist upon. I do not think it part of the 

 janitor's work to help with the garden. If the difficult work 

 is done for the pupils in the school garden, it tends to make 

 them helpless, when left to themselves to make a home garden. 



SILAS A. BURGESS, President of Worcester County 

 Market Gardeners' Association. 



"I think that this city and every city in the Commonwealth 

 should appropriate a certain tract of land for the purpose of 

 teaching the children gardening, and think they should go at 

 the work with a will." The influence of such gardens upon 

 the minds and character of the children could scarcely be 

 overestimated. It wouUl make them better citizens of the city 

 and the country. 



JAMES DRAPER, Secretary of the Parks Commission. 



There is opportunity for Worcester in children's gardens, if 

 proper organization were effected. If all the teachers are as 

 enthusiastic as Miss Henry and could give the time, and if 

 the curriculum of the school could be so arranged as to give 

 teachers time, it would be all right. Time is necessary, for 

 the ordinary teacher is worked hard. He said he knew because 

 he had four daughters teaching, from kindergarten to normal 

 school. 



He said the Parks Commission had not yet taken decisive 

 action, but would be willing, he had no doubt, to give a plot 

 of land for the purpose. But the Parks Commission would 

 not give land unless it were assured that the tract would be 

 an ornament to the park system of the city all the year round. 

 The Horticultural Society should be able to do something to 

 encourage. A splendid opportunity, he said, is before the 

 Society. 



