Members of a Garden Club 



School Garden Clubs in Crowded 

 New York City Schools 



Anna M. Hill 

 St Mary's Park,;The Bronx, X. V 



Three years ago in the early spring circulars were sent to many 

 schools by the School Garden Association suggesting the formation 

 of garden clubs among the pupils, the planting and care of plants 

 during subsequent growth to be classroom or home interest. 



In P. S. 121 Manhattan, on the east side, in a tenement and 

 pushcart section, only about fifty children responded the first 

 year. However, owing to a carefully planned exhibit of these 

 few plants the first June, the number of pupils who joined the 

 club and had plants to enter the next year, increased to about five 

 hundred. 



Many teachers had little or no knowledge of the kinds of seeds 

 best adapted for this work, and the lack of this information 

 called forth the carefully selected list of suitable seeds and the 

 actual cost to a school of 48 classes, which fist is appended to this 

 article. 



The seeds and soil were furnished to the children. They brought 

 in a wide and motley assortment of receptacles, boxes, cans, 

 jars, etc. Each teacher took the work of planting as a class 

 exercise in nature-study. 



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