FOREWORD 



"Among School Gardens" is intended, (i) To 

 answer the questions: What are school gardens? 

 What purpose do they serve? Where are the 

 best? (2) To give such explicit directions that 

 a novice may be able to start a school garden; 

 and to show that even the simplest one can be 

 of great benefit to children. (3) To share with 

 those already interested in school gardens knowl- 

 edge of work done in different places. 



Until a few years ago it was difficult to obtain 

 the right sort of instruction in school gardening 

 unless one left home for a long period. Many 

 are unable to do this. General information and 

 some experience in cultivating flowers in a city 

 yard constituted the few foundation stones upon 

 which I decided to build a good superstructure 

 of knowledge applicable to all phases of the sub- 

 ject. The fact that I had to collect my own equip- 

 ment may enable me to help others who cannot 

 obtain the proper training for school gardening. 

 Some instruction from Mr. Herbert D. Hemenway, 

 one of the pioneers of the movement, consid- 

 erable practice at the greenhouse bench, in the 

 teacher's class and in charge of children under 

 Mr. Stanley H. Rood, Director of the excellently 

 equipped School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn., 

 and work with Mr. Henry G. Parsons, lecturer on 



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