AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



has been added to the routine of the school, the 

 teachers say that the time required is a welcome 

 break that is more than made up by the vim and 

 expedition with which the pupils attack their 

 other work. 



Where the individual beds are not over lox 15 

 feet, actual gardening would not require more than 

 fifteen minutes or, at most, half an hour each 



A School Garden Class, Red Wing, Minn. 



school day; not over one and a half to two and a 

 half hours per week. Because of the nature of the 

 work, its period in the school program is frequently 

 not a fixed one. Cultivation, or tillage of their 

 plots, to be most pleasurable to the children, 

 should be something that they can enjoy when 

 they please, or be sent to as a delightful change 

 from their routine work. This is accomplished 



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