THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN 



without government help, hundreds of school gar- 

 dens cultivated by from 20 to 200 children each, in 

 scattered towns and cities from Maine to Virginia, 

 and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, that are 

 quietly doing good work the excellence of which 

 in many cases has not come to public notice. 

 In the south and middle west and in the far coast 



Second Grade Children Making Cuttings. 

 Washington, D. C. 



Normal School, 



states, in territory with which the writer is not 

 personally familiar, there are thousands of tenta- 

 tive attempts to utilize this new factor in educa- 

 tion. 



As a rule, the normal schools have been the 

 first to endorse the school garden and to try out 

 its value, while boards of education have viewed 



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