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Needless to say the little girl was properly consoled and a plan to 

 prevent the interference of cats with little girl's gardens was dis- 

 cussed on the spot. 



At one home the garden inspector was proudly escorted by a 

 small boy to his back yard which was surrounded by a tall wooden 

 fence. The teacher gazed with wonder and finally admitted to 

 herself that she saw no garden, so she asked, "Louis, where is your 

 garden?" "There it is," he answered, looking heavenward. 



Sure enough there it was, a garden suspended on a clothes drier! 

 After climbing up a ladder to the garden the inspector looked upon 

 a mass of green fohage. The child had carried two feet of soil up to 

 the drier and there had built his garden in order that it might get 

 full benefit of the sun's rays. Louis's garden has won the name of 

 the "The Hanging Garden of Babylon." 



The quality of the vegetables shown at the school garden exhibits 

 last fall compared favorably with that of their country cousins, and 

 proved that "gardening within the city limits" can be successfully 

 conducted. In spite of the fact that the gardens lacked the 

 patriotic appeal of the years of the war, the enrollment increased 

 33I per cent and the enthusiasm gained proportionately. 



GARDENING IN THE CITY SCHOOL CURRICULUM 

 John A. Hellinger 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 



In the present crisis of the school situation, the kind, amount and 

 organization of subject matter of the city school curriculum is of 

 great importance. Every individual must have a knowledge of 

 human relations and of nature in order to be an effective member of 

 society. The race has depended upon certain fundamentals for 

 its development. These fundamentals, be they human relations 

 or the most common natural phenomena, must form the basis of 

 instruction in the schools. Education performs the double service 

 of aiding individual minds to prepare for the reception and use of 

 knowledge, and of communicating what men through periods of 

 time have learned about nature and humanity. 



Gardening may well have a prominent part in the curriculimi of 

 the city school. Children should learn early in life that wholesome 

 food and beautiful flowers, shrubs and trees, can be grown from the 

 soil without very much drudgery. The joy of this work should be 



