DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCHOOL GARDENS 



3. Trial gardens or gardens for experimental work 



with plants or crops. (These are often 

 coupled with No. i.) 



4. "Topographical" or chart gardens, leading di- 



rectly to a wild flower garden or to school- 

 ground decoration or to the school garden 

 farm. 



The classification into "group" and "individ- 

 ual" gardens is not given here because by far the 

 greater number of gardens in some measure com- 

 bine the two, and because the term is a distinction 

 in method of work rather than in character of 

 gardens. 



It is a far cry from the complete outfit of the 

 ideal garden to taking up the pavement in a school 

 yard and making 2x2 foot beds for tiny farms. 

 But, as one cannot expect completeness, so one 

 may hope to avoid such impoverishment as the 

 2x2 foot plots would imply. If you cannot do any 

 better, begin with the 2x2 foot bed and comfort 

 yourself with the thought of the lesser sum of money 

 needed and the probability that the question of soil 

 will resolve itself into buying a few bushels or at 

 most a few loads of good garden soil, such as would 

 be necessary in the case of a roof garden.* In 

 cities, parts, so to speak, of the ideal garden may 

 be scattered judiciously among the various schools, 

 in their yards or on nearby vacant lots. For 

 instance, one school may have only the garden 



♦ A load of earth or gravel is one cubic yard, estimated at 1 50 

 shovelfuls. 



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