DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCHOOL GARDENS 



A pretty story is told in connection with 

 the formal garden* of the Watterson School, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. At the third clipping of the 

 privet hedge, the cuttings were taken into the 

 schoolroom and the children were asked if they 



Vacant Lot in LouibViLLL (see opposite page) After Several 

 Seasons' Planting 



cared enough for their hedge to think that other 



, ♦ The formal decoration follows the vertical and horizontal lines 

 of ornament and the color scheme of the school building; vines 

 are planted only in the deep angles of the building with the intent 

 to so train them as to make a solid band of green about the base of 

 the building up to the first horizontal lines of white stone trimming. 

 Stiff plants and trees of upright growth carry out the vertical lines 

 while the red and white in the building is repeated in the tan covered 

 playground and in the continuous bloom of pink and white (lowers. 



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