AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



or danger of tramping down the bed. Except in 

 "training gardens" or where there is a graded 

 course of work, children's plots are seldom larger 



Rover Bed 



3 6 



Flower Bed | | Flower Dej^ 



^Flowerbed | | Flower Bed | 



See opposite page iji 



Plan of Doan School Garden (Showing Teacher's Table and 

 Class Bench) 



than this, and 4x8 feet or 8 x 10. feet is the 

 more frequent size.* 



* Experienced teachers maintain that children under fourteen 

 should not have plots over lox 15 feet. Small beds tend to waste 

 space by requiring many paths. Dividing a garden into spaces of 

 5 or 10 feet is frequently easier and, by giving a decimal unit, makes 

 many problems less troublesome for the children to compute. 



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