AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



from sudden showers. Sun dial, weather vane 

 and rain gauge, together with barometer and 

 thermometer for daily observations should be 

 at hand. To be complete, the model garden 

 should have a suitable place for storing fertilizers, 

 seeds and garden requisites, and even a small 

 suite of household rooms with lecture room and 

 laboratory for carrying on the home laboratory 



Housekeeping Room, DeWitt Clinton Park, New York City 



and lecture work for which the garden furnishes 

 both material and opportunity.* 



This may be ideal and rarely attainable at the 

 start. It is often better to work up to this com- 



* DeWitt Clinton Park School Farm Garden has such a suite of 

 rooms, including those for tools and for laboratory work, in the 

 basement of the pergola that bounds the garden on the Hudson 

 River side. In these, elementary lessons in housewifery as well as 

 in agriculture are conducted. 



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