AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



the head-worker in the garden, and deference paid 

 to her knowledge of the most desirable type of 

 assistant (training and personality considered) 

 that the particular garden requires. 



One city selects assistants from such of its 

 regular elementary grade teachers as are en- 

 rolled upon the eligible list. It employs ^hem 

 in groups of two or more to serve in thegardens 

 either in the afternoon or forenoon for five days 

 each week from July to September and pays them 

 $12 per week. The gardens are also open for 

 work after school hours and on Saturdays in 

 June and September. No insect study or other 

 allied work with garden material is required; 

 the lessons are confined to elementary gardening. 

 The teachers must have had at least one season 

 under experienced supervision in growing the crops 

 that the children will raise. These gardens have 

 a floral border filled by the overflow from the, 

 city's park supply but with room enough left for 

 the children to grow a few plants as their contribu- 

 tion to the beauty of the whole. The individual 

 plots or farms stand for individual care and rights, 

 —even to the right of carelessness as an instructive 

 example. The border demands of the little citizen 

 his or her share of responsibility for the commu- 

 nity's standard of order, beauty and co-operation. 



In cities where there are a large number of 

 gardens, often of various types, an inspector, 

 supervisor or curator of gardens is appointed, 

 with assistants in each garden to carry out plans 



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