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There were many visitors to the gardens: parents, friends, teachers, and 

 others especially interested in the \\ork. 



An exhibition of children's garden products was held in the hall of the 

 school, most of the work of arrangement being done by the children 

 themselves. Ten tables averaging fifteen feet in length were closely 

 packed with the exhibits and if more tables had been available they 

 would have been used to advantage. In two days about four hundred 

 people inspected the exhibit. Thirty-two prizes consisting of new fifty 

 and twenty-five cent pieces were awarded for the best flowers and vege- 

 tables, nine of which were won by children connected with the garden 

 of the Lincoln School. 



Report of the Sewall School Garden, Brookline, Mass. 



BY MISS ELIZABETH SEWALL HILL, GARDEX DIRECTOR. 



Honorary Mention, 1905. 



In 1903 the Sewall School garden was started by the Brookline Edu- 

 cational Society but is now under the direction of the School Board, the 

 town contributing about one-half of the cost of maintenance. 



It is situated on private grounds opposite the school building and is 

 137 by 50 feet in size. It is fiat, easy to lay out, and every child in the 

 school, 168 in all, had a garden. In the garden season the teacher took 

 her whole class out and helped in the planting. 



At the garden exhibition these gardens received nine prizes; each 

 child picked, arranged, and carried his own flowers and vegetables. Thou- 

 sands of flowers were picked every day; some sent to sick friends; some 

 to adorn the class room; and some to take home. 



These children are always eager for their garden work and have been 

 faithful, helpful, and well behaved. There was a great gain in good 

 behavior in the schools this year and it was attributed by the teachers 

 to the garden work. 



