AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



In very many cases, the assistants are regular 

 teachers who volunteer during the spring term for 

 the extra hours of work in their desire to hasten 

 the day when the school garden shall become an 

 established feature of their school. Where a 

 garden is part of a school a principal will often 

 supervise the work and arrange that each grade 

 teacher shall have time to take her children to 

 the garden for an hour or so in the course of 

 each week; while, if the garden is carried through 

 the summer, a school teacher (sometimes the 

 principal) is hired for the vacation period. Some- 

 times the garden may be cared for during the 

 summer by the janitor or by a committee of the 

 children who remain in town. 

 ^ Turning to the kinds of gardens considered 

 according to environment and purpose, and fol- 

 lowing the analogy of flowers, they may be divided 

 into two orders with several varieties in each; 

 namely, (I) The urban or city school garden, 

 answering to the needs of towns and cities, and 

 (11) the suburban or rural, answering to the needs 

 of small villages and country districts, the two 

 classes being subdivided according to the particu- 

 lar object in mind in the laying out of each. 

 For instance, gardens aiming especially at school- 

 ground decoration would occur in both main 

 divisions in connection with both city and rural 

 schools. And again, gardens for experimental 

 purposes, designed to make clear the use of 

 fertilizers, the development or deterioration of 



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