206 The Nature-Study Idea 



stimulus of emulation aroused. It is always 

 advisable, when it can be arranged, to provide 

 for some culmination or focus of the season's 

 work in the nature of a flower-show or vege- 

 table-show; or, the children may be allowed to 

 sell the products of their gardens or to give 

 them to hospitals or other worthy objects. 

 This individuality of interest can be easily main- 

 tained in the plot-garden, but it is more difficult 

 in the ornamental garden in which the plants 

 are grown in continuous borders. (See p. 87.) 



In order to indicate how some of the ques- 

 tions are attacked by those who are engaged in 

 the work, I reprint an article on the Whittier 

 School-Garden, by Miss Jean E. Davis, that 

 appeared in Country Life in America: 



"What is believed to be the largest school- 

 garden in the United States is to be found in 

 Virginia at the Hampton Institute for Negro 

 and Indian youth, where it forms part of the 

 equipment of the Whittier Training School 

 the practice-school of the institution. Two 

 acres of ground are given up to the garden, the 



