CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



The work has grown steadily and is being 

 carried on under different auspices. The Twen- 

 tieth Century Club of Boston assumed the 

 expense — ninety-two dollars — of establishing a 

 school garden containing eighty-two beds in the 

 yard of the English High School on Dartmouth 

 Street. Boys from the Rice School and girls 

 from the Franklin School enjoyed its privileges. 

 The students of the Normal School also received 

 instruction in the theory and practise of raising 

 flowers and vegetables. 



The Massachusetts Civic League of Boston 

 inaugurated a playground on a large tract of 

 land on Columbus Avenue. This is equipped 

 not only with apparatus for the exercise and the 

 amusement of children under the direction of 

 trained instructors, but contains inside the fence 

 three hundred and fifty children's gardens, each 

 three and a half by six feet, in which a variety 

 of flowers and vegetables affords the little gar- 

 deners great pleasure and profit. 



The George Putnam School Garden, Boston, 

 is one of the oldest and best known in the coun- 

 try. The wild-flower garden was begun in 1890 

 and has supplied the school with nature-study 

 material. The kitchen-garden was inaugurated 

 in 1900 with eighty-four beds, each three and a 

 half by ten feet, and progressed on lines similar 

 to other gardens. In the autumn the ground 



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