APPENDICES 



the college settlement, a block away, reported that 

 "never had there been a summer so peaceful." 



(Jewell, J. R., Agricultural Education, 1907.) 



NOTE 1 9, PAGE 230 



YONKERS SCHOOL GARDENS 



SuGGESTbD Program* 



Purpose 



1 . To retain influence on children through the year. 



2. To make garden work continuous. 



Methods 

 ! . Garden work — Greenhouse and cold frames. 



Slips, cuttings, bulbs, perennials, flats. 



All methods of propagation. 



Window boxes and potting. 



Gathering of seeds, roots and slips. 



Preparation for next season's work. 



Renovating of tools, markers, varnishing, etc. 



Sorting and measuring of seeds. 



Homemade envelopes. 



Help for home gardens, in measuring seeds. 



Lectures: Market product, commercial food 

 stuffs, trees, farms, farming, domestic ani- 

 mals, etc., pests, cocoons, etc. 

 2. Playground — The garden after closing in fall, to be 

 at once ploughed and harrowed and used 

 as playground for four months. 



Free play, group games, fair play. 



Football, slides, skating, snow forts and 

 warfare. 



♦Courtesy of Mrs. Artliur l.ivirinori-. 



