IN VACATION AND TERM TIME 



School Garden Association of New York, with a 

 membership of looo. Their first annual report in 

 the spring of 1909 showed over 80 school gardens 

 carried on by the voluntary efforts of these public 

 school teachers. 



The gardens just described are but loosely 

 connected with the school life. Philadelphia, 

 by contrast, correlates the garden work with 

 that of the school "from the kindergarten to 



School Gakohn and Arsenal Park, rmhBi;KGH, Pa. 



the senior class of the normal." During the 

 school term, the classes from the kindergarten 

 to the fourth grade inclusive visit the garden dur- 

 ing school hours. There, they have a talk of 

 fifteen or twenty minutes, and then, on the class 

 plots, put into practice what they have heard, 

 observing and working the rest of the period. The 

 talks or lessons are progressive through these 

 grades as are those for the individual plot holders 



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