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 FIG. 3. An individual plot garden with paths between the plots. 



cult for him in the earlier years and .without repetition 

 in the higher grades of the simpler facts with which he is 

 already familiar. In agricultural sections especially, 

 the teaching of gardening naturally and progressively 

 leads to the more advanced teaching of agriculture. 

 This flexibility and exhaustlessness of the subject is 

 another reason why the teaching of gardening has been 

 so successful in the schools. 



The organization of the practice work in gardening 

 has received much attention. Several types of gardens 

 have been successfully developed in meeting the various 

 conditions existing in different communities. 



The school garden or school farm of individual plots is 

 one in which each pupil of the school or of certain grade 



