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authorities of the latter, who gave the use of the 

 ground, a school garden was laid out with some 

 fifty little 4x8 beds for vegetables and flowers, 

 and space for more flowers in the borders. Under 

 the guidance of a skilful teacher, who had been 

 trained in the DeWitt Clinton Park garden, the 



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children were allowed to cultivate their plots from 

 half an hour to an hour each day according to their 

 strength. With such occupation the hours lost 

 some of their monotony, were happier, and brought 

 better health and more resources and pleasures, 

 not only for the present but for future days. 

 As in the city, school gardens of different kinds 

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