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little effort is being made towards making the gardens of greatest 

 educational value, except in the line of manual training. This 

 latter alone is undoubtedly worth all the effort and is a sufficient 

 justification for making school-gardens in connection with ele- 

 mentary education ; but gardens are such splendid concentrations 

 of natural objects, especially the living, that they surely have the 

 possibilities of great educational value in discipline other than 

 manual and in information which has practical, intellectual, 

 aesthetic, and moral bearings. It is here, rather than in the prac- 

 tical management, that we see the present problem concerning the 

 school-garden movement ; and suggestions for making gardens 

 most efficient educationally will be welcomed.] 



SCHOOL-GARDENS AT THE SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE, 

 HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 



BY H. D. HEMENWAY 

 Director of the School of Horticulture 



The School of Horticulture was established in the year 1900 

 as one of the Handicraft Schools of Hartford by the Rev. Francis 

 Goodwin. Mr. Goodwin is the founder and largely the supporter 

 of the Handicraft Schools, for which he donated over one hun- 

 dred acres of land in the northwestern part of the city of Hart- 

 ford. School-garden work is only one of the subjects taught at 

 the School of Horticulture, although it has become most widely 

 known on account of the success attained in this line of work. 

 Probably no school-gardens in the country are conducted on more 

 simple, more systematic and at the same time more scientific prin- 

 ciples than those at this school. Nevertheless, it is possible to 

 get more good from a garden connected with the public schools 

 because there all the work can be correlated with other branches 

 of study. 



The children come from the city in classes of about fifteen. 

 They enter the class-room where each pupil receives a numbered 

 note-book on which he writes his name and the name of the public 

 school that he attends. In making application for a garden, the 

 pupil gives his name, age, residence, parent's name and occupation, 

 nationality, the public school he attends and the grade. On the 



