AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



such a garden requires the fundamental knowl- 

 edge necessary to success in carrying on any kind 

 of a school garden. For this reason, and because 

 it is more likely to be the sort of garden attempted 

 in any locality as an initial experiment, it is here 

 taken as the basic type, and to it and the work 



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that may be centered in it, the greater number of 

 the following chapters are devoted. One may find 

 such gardens in the east and south, in our middle 

 and western states, in Canada and in the West In- 

 dies, though in the last the nature of the crops will 

 vary considerably from the uniformity common on 

 the continent. Its plots may be tiny or big, its 



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