SCHOOL GARDENS IN EUROPE 



In Germany the school-garden movement is 

 not regulated by law, but is encouraged, and 

 some of the most successful gardens may be 

 found within her borders. Austria-Hungary 

 alone has eighteen thousand school gardens, of 

 which the province of Styria has eight hundred 

 — not a school without a garden. 



When the importance of school gardens as 

 a factor in the training of children is consid- 

 ered, and their efficiency has been so thoroughly 

 demonstrated by European countries, it seems 

 almost incredible that their establishment in 

 the United States should have been so long de- 

 layed. They are nowhere among us regulated 

 by law and with very few exceptions are not 

 incorporated in the regular school work. How- 

 ever, the influence on the moral, intellectual and 

 physical natures of children is so apparent that 

 it is safe to predict that during the next few 

 years a school without a garden of some kind 

 will be an exception. 



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