IN VACATION AND TERM TIME 



the employments of the garden; by elementary 

 arts and crafts work, and by maintaining a 

 winter playground and club house. 



Gardens in connection with vacation schools 

 are likely to suffer from the fact that the school is 

 open for a short season only, and also from the 

 meagre and short-lived support which their share 

 of the vacation school funds usually provides. 

 Unless outside aid can be secured, the garden runs 

 the risk of having to close before the crops are 

 ripe, which is not fair to the children. 



Of the second class of gardens, three have 

 already been mentioned; namely, the pioneer gar- 

 den of the National Cash Register Company at 

 Dayton, the garden of the School of Horticul- 

 ture at Hartford, Connecticut, and the Training 

 (harden of the Home Gardening Association of 

 (Cleveland. In each of these the work is planned 

 preeminently to give a practical, serviceable, 

 remunerative knowledge of truck gardening. Yet 

 the underlying aim of Mr. Patterson and Dr. 

 Goodwin, the founders of the two first named 

 gardens, was the broad purpose of developing the 

 boy through the labor performed, the special 

 knowledge gained, and habits formed. 1 he same 

 desire to cultivate boys as well as plants, pre- 

 vails at the Cleveland Training Garden. Be- 

 cause its method of training is so individual and 

 because the boys are encouraged to stay for play, 

 this garden in a measure falls into the third class 

 of vacation school gardens. 



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