AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



the country. It is located on two sides of 

 its school, and on one side runs far back. Its 

 flowers were massed in the front, while long 

 lines of vegetables stretched away in the back- 

 ground. There were twelve rooms in the school 

 and as in the spring, each class had planted 

 and tended its own vegetable and flower plot, 



The Douglas School Garden, Cincinnati 



SO in the summer time, each grade carried 

 on the work, though with a different set of chil- 

 dren. It showed good planting with sufficient 

 uniformity and excellent results, and gave evi- 

 dence of intelligent supervision and a recognition 

 of those silent values that build character and 

 develop a sense of citizenship. Its effect was 



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