AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



servation practice to visiting classes, it is a summer 

 garden in that the greater part of its work is 

 done, as has been said, during the vacation 

 months. Many of the school teachers of Greater 



Conquering Difficulties, P. S. 41, Manhattan,* New York 

 City 



New York are firm beHevers in the gospel of the 

 school garden and to further it have formed The 



* In sections of the oval, the children raised peas, carrots and 

 beans bordered by dwarf nasturtiums; lettuce and zinnias; balsam 

 and radishes (the flowers blooming after the vegetables were gone); 

 and one section of potatoes. 



In the border, the gardeners of the different grades raised daffo- 

 dils, narcissus, hyacinth together with cypress and madeira vine; 

 pansies, dwarf nasturtiums, sweet alyssum and scarlet runner bean; 

 a rhubarb plant, a seedling oak and maple, a hydrangea, iris, mari- 

 gold, zinnia and wild aster; day lilies, violets, lily of the valley, 

 radishes and zinnia; while the sixth grade had a wild flower plot. 



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