AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



garden movement. Preparation was thus being 

 made for putting school garden instruction on a 

 pedagogical basis and preparing teachers for their 

 work. 

 ^ Since 1904, other institutions, such as New 

 York University, Amherst Agricultural College, 

 Storrs, the Chautauqua Assembly, have opened 



Morgan School, Washington, D. C. 



short summer courses for teachers, and in 1909 

 the University of Pennsylvania gave a course of 

 four lectures, offering as an object lesson to its 

 summer students a school garden cultivated by 

 the children of Philadelphia.* Both lectures and 



* Already farmers' institutes of several states have officially 

 endorsed the school garden; summer schools are offering courses for 

 its advancement. The agricultural colleges of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, 

 Minnesota, Ohio. Nebraska, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and 



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