SCHOOL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



" The lectures given in the public schools 

 accomplished the purpose for which they were 

 given. Twenty-four schools made arrangements 

 to have them. The lectures were illustrated with 

 lantern slides. Hand-bills passed about in the 

 neighborhood of the school usually secured an 

 audience sufficient to fill the meeting-place. The 

 lecturer endeavored on every occasion to bring 

 out the way in which seeds should be planted and 

 cared for, but emphasized also the possible ar- 

 rangement of plants to exhibit to best advantage 

 their size and color. The growing qualities of 

 the various seeds were also mentioned. The illus- 

 trations included not only artistic arrangements 

 of form and color secured in famous gardens by 

 skilled workmen, but also results obtained by 

 those who planted the seeds distributed by the 



alike, and its first success gives encouragement and much 

 promise for the future. The Alliance sold about 6,500 packages 

 of flower-seeds. The Slavic newspapers of Cleveland, and 

 even some in other cities, heartily indorsed the home-gardening 

 movement and encouraged it. Many orders for seeds were 

 received from points outside of Cleveland. 



" ' For the year 1904 the Slavic Alliance is making prepara- 

 tions to give a greater impulse to this movement. Among 

 other things 25,000 copies will be issued in four different lan- 

 guages of a pamphlet upon home gardening and home improve- 

 ment, containing instructions and hints as to successful culti- 

 vation, and dealing separately with each variety of flowers in 

 this year's list. The Alliance seeks to meet the situation in 

 the most practical way, and hopes to realize in some humble 

 measure the fniits of these efforts for the good of our fair city 

 and for the enrichment of its civic life.' " 



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