Boys' Plots, School of Horticulturk 



THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN 



in the public park, which has now been taken over 

 by the board of 

 school visitors as 

 one of the several 

 gardens main- 

 tained by them. 

 Dr. Good win 

 founded the 

 School of Horti- 

 culture to give 

 opportunity for 

 individual work 

 and graded train- 

 ing to the boys 



of the Watkinson Farm School of which he was a 

 trustee. Under Mr. Herbert Hemenway the work 



of the School of 

 Horticulture was 

 broadened to in- 

 clude city boys 

 and girls, teach- 

 ers' classes, and 

 gardens for adult 

 men and women 

 who wished to cul- 

 tivate a plot un- 

 der expert super- 

 vision or advice. 

 Recently, under 

 the present direc- 

 tor, Mr. Stanley H. Rood, lecture courses have also 



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A I KAt.m K s (.lARObN, St.Ht>OL OF 



Horticulture 



