250 CIVIC IMPROVEMENT 



QUESTIONS 



1. Discuss the growth of the school garden movement in the United 

 States. 



2. Discuss the plan of a garden for a grammar school. 



3. Submit plans for (a) a girls' garden, (6) a boys' garden. 



4. Discuss the advisability of having demonstration gardens. 



5. Discuss the arrangement of the school grounds. 



6. Make a drawing of the plan of your school grounds and suggest 

 improvements. Bring a plan of your home grounds, with the names of the 

 various trees, shrubs, and flowers. Ask how it can be improved. 



7. Discuss the need of civic improvement clubs. 



8. What do you think of boys' and girls' contest clubs ? 



9. Give a brief account of President Roosevelt's Commission on Country 

 Life. 



10. Discuss briefly the Southwest Interstate Commission on Country 

 Life organized in Oklahoma. 



1 1 . What other States have been active in this movement ? 



12. What are the leading problems facing the people in your community ? 

 What agencies are helping to solve these problems ? In what ways can the 

 school boys and girls be most helpful ? 



REFERENCES 



How to make School Gardens, Hemenway. 



The School Garden, Farmers' Bulletin No. 218. 



Tree Planting in Rural School Grounds, Farmers' Bulletin No. 134. 



Primer of Forestry, Farmers' Bulletin No. 173. 



What Forestry means to Representative Men, Circular No. 33. 



