4 HOW TO MAKE SCHOOL GARDENS 



school grounds the use of a nearby vacant 

 lot can often be obtained. 



For lower grades it probably is as well 

 to have a general bed or garden. The 

 conditions of every place will have to be 

 considered; but where conditions are 

 favorable for the individual garden, it 

 gives a certain amount of responsibility 

 and interest that the general garden does 

 not. It shows exactly what the individ- 

 ual is doing and helps to develop the 

 individuality of the child. Very often, 

 too, the excellence of several of these 

 individual gardens will inspire those to 

 much more careful work who naturally 

 are inclined to be a little slack. 



Where possible, it is better to grow 

 both vegetables and flowers. This de- 

 velops both the esthetic and the prac- 

 tical side of the pupil, and soon the child 

 who does not love flowers, if there be 

 such, will love the flowers that he raises, 

 and in so loving them will be uplifted. 

 In growing crops, grow common things. 

 Those who have plenty of land can grow 



