WATERS] SUPERVISING A COMMUNITY GARDEN 65 



Largest average size vegetables 20 



Largest variety 20 



Quantity 20 



Quality 20 



General character 10 



Best story of how the garden was planted and results secured .... 10 



The school was awarded permanently, the Oregonian Challenge 

 Cup, which must be won two years in succession. 



For the younger brothers and sisters of the children, a sand 

 garden was provided where they might play while the one in 

 charge was working in his or her garden. 



Supervising a Community Garden in Summer 



Elizabeth M. Waters 



McCosH School, Chicago, Sept. 5, 1913. 

 Mr. Grant Smith, 



Chicago Normal College. 

 Dear Sir: 



Our school garden was in charge of Miss Elizabeth Waters during the 

 summer vacation and her management of it has been so successful that I am 

 writing to ask if you cannot give her some credit or honor points for her 

 many hours of work day after day during the whole vacation. 



Ihe garden has been beautiful and bounteous and has produced several 

 crops owing to her skillful care. Miss Waters has organized the children, met 

 them almost daily, amused them and interested them, photographed them 

 and given the faithful a picnic at the end. No one could have done more, 

 and we appreciate the Normal's co-operation. I am writing this without 

 Miss Water's knowledge. 



(Signed) I. M. Pahlman, 



Principal. 



Last June when Dr. Grant Smith who has charge of the Home 

 and Community Garden work of the Chicago Normal College 

 asked for students to assist certain Chicago schools in summer 

 gardening, I ofifered my services to the children of the James 

 McCosh School. The school is situated in a good residential 

 district. The children are kept off the lawns and the lawns are 

 kept for ornamental purposes only. 



The garden was planted in two vacant lots across the street 

 from the school. Early in the Spring the boys had secured the 

 use of an old carriage horse and, after much difhculty, prepared 

 the rather sandy soil for planting. The boys also built a fence 

 of iron wire which they made fast to a strong wooden framework. 



