IN VACATION AND TERM TIME 



consist of cutting silhouettes of garden tools and 

 picturing little gardens by clippings from florists* 

 catalogues. Strings and necklaces of seeds, seed 

 pictures and twig stories, as well as furniture 

 made of burdock burs, allow the children's 

 hands to work out their own ideas. School- 

 garden work of the same character must not be 

 repeated through the grades. It must be adapted 

 to the age and the experience of the children. 

 This may be accomplished in several ways. 



An eastern Normal School, Hyannis, Mass., 

 in its six years of school life offers gardening to 

 the children practically during three years of the 

 course, each being a full garden year. The school 

 garden course takes its place in the spring in 

 the second, fourth and eighth grades and in the 

 fall in the third, fifth and ninth. Dr. W. A. Bald- 

 win considers that the natural standpoint from 

 which to view the school garden is as a farm that 

 is to minister to human needs. Consequently, 

 it is best seen in connection with a home. In 

 such a garden each child performs his own labor 

 and enjoys the fruit of that labor. At the gar- 

 den in Hyannis every effort is made to conform 

 to this idea. In the laying out of the vegetable 

 beds of the fourth grade, it is planned to make 

 the individual plots in long continuous rows of 

 about twenty-five feet so that the general appear- 

 ance would be that of a garden on an ordinary 

 farm or on the child's home lot. Indeed, he is 

 expected, with the co-operation of his parents, to 



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