AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



prize collections. An occasional word from the 

 instructor is the lead which will be followed by 

 children as they compare size, color, conformity 

 to standard type, appearance of vitality and the 

 desirable characteristics to be promoted by care- 

 ful selection of seed; as they contrast the weight 

 or measure of their respective crops, the careful- 

 ness with which the produce is cleansed or 



Our Pumpkins — Lakf.view School, Pueblo, Col. 



bunched, and its attractiveness when ready for 

 home or market. 



If bunched, flowers and vegetables should be 

 securely tied, but so loosely as not to look choked. 

 A practical object lesson in the aesthetic value of 

 grouping a few flowers, or in the beauty of a single 

 blossom, together with some suggestions of the 

 relation of color and form, or hints as to the ap- 

 propriateness of the receptacle which holds them, 



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