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THE CAPE MAY SUMMER SCHOOL 



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The summer school itself has had difficulties to meet in carrying 

 on its work, as great in some cases as those of its students. One 

 of the difficulties confronting it was a suitable spot upon which 

 to conduct a school garden for the short period the school was in 

 session. The yard, not large in extent, is covered with cinders. 

 No available vacant lots were near except a wilderness jungle 

 which was obtained for the use of the school in 1909, no extra 



Fig. 2. 



charge being made for tin cans, ash heaps, dead tree stumps, 

 weeds and other materials of similar value. 



The same year it was decided that a group of colored children 

 in the neighborhood should be taken as a "practice class" while the 

 teacher-students in the Nature Study Class of the school would 

 observe the results of their work and assist in the making of gardens 

 as their time permitted. The result was that ten days after start- 

 ing on the almost impossible looking lot, it really became "vacant" 

 and ready for marking into plots. At the end of the four weeks' 

 session, radishes were above the ground and other seeds were 

 sprouting. During August of that year, the growing plants were 



