I4th January, A. D. 1904. 



LECTUllE 



Illustrated by Steueopticon. 



BY 



HERBERT D. HEMENWAY, Hartford, Conn. 



Theme: — School Gardens. 



It is recognized, that a child's echicatioji is not complete until 

 he has learned something of the world he lives in, something 

 of the food he eats, and how it is produced. There is nothing 

 more fascinating to the boy shut up in a factory than a broad 

 expanse of green fields, waving corn or shimmering wheat. 

 But that boy cannot get out among those fields as he would 

 like. He eats bread, potatoes, radishes, cabbages and other 

 vegetables, but if he is confined in a factory he does not know 

 how they are produced. 



It was the realization of this, that factory boys lose the 

 opportunities of country boys, that induced the president of 

 the National Cash Register Co., Dayton, 0., Mr. Patterson, to 

 lay out a large plot of land in children's gardens. He got a 

 piece of land adjoining property owned by the company in 

 Dayton, and several college graduated agriculturists to act as 

 head gardeners. Their instructions have made the summer 

 life of the boys employed in the factory much more ]Dleasurable 

 than it could be otherwise. 



There are seventy-one boys' gardens izi this plot, which 

 covers six acres. Each garden is ten feet wide and one hundred 

 and seventy feet long. One boy cares for a garden. In the 

 gardens are radishes, corn, lettuce, beets, carrots, cabbages, 

 string beans, peas, onions, parsnips, turnips, potatoes, tomatoes 



