AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



may be separated or may overlap, or be found 

 represented in a large model garden, so, in rural 

 .districts, there may be combination or singleness 

 "of plan. The school garden farm emphatically 

 has its place in manufacturing towns, in many 

 villages, and in distinctly rural communities. In 

 the country school, except for the work of the 

 youngest children, the school farm of the 

 city will undergo modifications in order to 

 adapt it to the practical needs of a farming 

 community. These modifications will be treated 

 under the discussion of experimentation or trial 

 gardens. 



In the country, school-ground decoration will 

 not be of the formal kind frequent in cities. Where 

 the schoolhouse is situated on the roadside, the 

 garden should aim to become a part of the land- 

 scape, and the main lines should take their em- 

 phasis from the natural contour of the land and 

 its salient features. Whenever the school is in 

 a village or in the open country, the decorative 

 scheme of the yard through which the building is 

 approached should be founded upon the ABC 

 of landscape gardening; it should avoid a spotty 

 appearance by, 



A. Keeping lawn centers open, hence restful. 



B. Planting in masses so as to get large effects; 



and by careful arrangement of foreground 

 and of color and texture of foliage, and 

 avoiding 'Tegginess" or bare, scraggly 

 trunks and stems, securing tones of deep- 

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