DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCHOOL GARDENS 



The Story suggests gardens for special purposes; 

 as for preparation for truck farming (''training 

 gardens"); for exchange of plants; for forcing; 

 for nursery or forestry purposes; or the kitchen 

 garden which might be attached to a school where 

 the cooking courses were particularly good. In 

 connection with any of these gardens, there might 

 be a few flowers or a floraLborder so that the work 

 could be partly individual, partly co-operative. 

 In the kitchen garden there could 15e in addition, 

 observation plots showing sweet herbs, grains, flax, 

 hemp and cotton, or the raw products necessary 

 for the commonest household tasks. Observation 

 plots on a large numerical scale are necessary in 

 botanical gardens laid out to show the classifica- 

 tion of plants by families or according to their in- 

 dustrial or commercial uses. Here again, plots 

 can be apportioned to individual children, and 

 special cultural directions may be given to each 

 when necessary. The exchange garden above re- 

 ferred to is carried on perhaps as much for the 

 benefit of the parents as for the little ones. It 

 is a central garden to which men, women and 

 children can bring their extra or duplicate plants 

 and exchange them for those of which others had 

 a surplus. In Cleveland such a garden made in 

 one year 20,000 exchanges. That means not only 

 a good deal of pleasure, but much return for little 

 money. 



No city offers better opportunity to study the 

 various kinds of gardens than Cleveland with its 

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