CHAPTER IV 

 COST OF EQUIPMENT 



"A school yard planted by a gardener is good if the work can be 

 done in no other way, but the one that best serves its educational 

 value is planted by children, no matter how small the ground or how 

 crude the result. It is in such a garden that moral teaching is ac- 

 complished." — B. T. Galloway. 



A small boy in Massachusetts wrote " 1 took an axe and made the 

 earth fine and with the coal shovel turned all over and over until it 

 was all mixed together."— Letter to the head of the Children's 

 Department. James Vick's Sons. 



"The children cleared up the rubbish and tackled the soil with 

 any old thing they could lay hands on." 



THE purpose of this chapter is to give data 

 for a fair estimate when computing an 

 appropriation for a garden; to suggest a 

 possible minimum cost; and to urge beginning 

 a garden on even less where there is a courage- 

 ous, intelligent enthusiast to watch over it. The 

 chapter will also include some consideration of the 

 use and care of tools. 



The illustrations of an eighteen cent flower 

 garden show that seeds need not cost much. 

 Government seeds sent upon school requests have 

 been spoken of, but whether the garden is in con- 

 nection with a school or not, it is better not to 

 depend upon such aid entirely; better to have the 



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