AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



nine school gardens and the stress it lays upon 

 school-ground decoration. Miss Miller, in the 

 Watterson and the new Technical High Schools, 

 gives two excellent examples of formal planting, 

 and about many of the older school buildings, some 

 of which present rather hard propositions for the 

 gardener, there are good decorative effects. Of 

 the nine gardens, Rosedale* alone approaches com- 

 pleteness. Among the others, for lack of space, 

 different kinds of gardening are divided. In addi- 

 tion, Cleveland has gardens on vacant lots and 

 one, the Training Garden, conducted by the Home 

 Gardening Association. At present, the work in 

 the last named is divided between the junior and 

 senior boys. It is, however, the intention of the 

 association to develop a graded course of three or 

 four years, so that a boy may here or on a farm, 

 which will later be connected with the garden, learn 

 enough agriculture to earn his living as a truck 

 gardener or be inspired to fmd his way to an agri- 

 cultural college, if he wishes to study general or 

 special farming. Already the association and its 

 friends have rewarded one boy by a scholarship at 

 the Wooster State Agricultural College and expect 

 to appoint him assistant in the Training Garden 

 because being city born and bred yet trained 

 in agriculture, he can attract and teach city 

 boys effectively. 



A celebrated physician and neurologist tells us 

 that exercise of the muscles is absolutely necessary 



* See Appendix A, Note 3. 



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