AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



In New England the pioneer work of establish- 

 ing school gardens was, as has been said, begun 

 under the influence of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society; and a little later the Massachu- 

 setts Civic League, the Wornan's Auxiliary of the 

 American Park and Outdoor Art Association, 

 the Twentieth Century Club and the Normal 



School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn. 



School of Boston as well as other clubs, schools 

 and village improvement societies throughout the 

 state, took up the work. 



In Connecticut, the Rev. Dr. Francis Goodwin 

 in 1900 founded the Hartford School of Horti- 

 culture. The enterprise of the Women^'s Civic 

 Club of that city, shortly after, started a garden 



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