XXXVI. CIVIC IMPROVEMENT 



SCHOOL GARDENS 



THE United States Government maintains a large model school 

 garden at Washington, D.C., that should be visited by every 

 teacher who visits Washington. Other good school gardens may 

 be seen at the State normal schools in Hyannis, Massachusetts; 

 Kirksville, Missouri; Edmond, Weatherford, and Alva, Oklahoma; 

 and San Jose, California. Among the most attractive and the 



School garden, Weatherford, Okla. 



best arranged gardens in the United States are those belonging to 

 the boys of the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio. 

 They are models of neatness, and no one can see them without be- 

 ing greatly impressed with their value and importance. The idea 

 has taken firm hold there, and nearly all of the children spend their 

 spare time either in the school gardens or in their small private 

 flower gardens at their own homes. 



Each garden is generally made ten feet wide and seventy feet 

 long when sufficient ground is available. 



In some of the regular school gardens the plats are laid off ten 

 feet wide and twenty-five feet long, with the rows running north 

 and south in order that the sunlight may be evenly distributed. 



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