i8 Till SCHOOL GARDEN BOOK 



vi>it the home gardens throughout the summer. Teachers 

 in many schools have made gardeni: -cess through 



their o\\ n dev< mill the authorities took tlie work 



up and provided special instructors and facili; 



The most sati.-factoi , arc, of course, secured where 



a specially trained ir- employed to 



direct the work of cl; I \\ ho may personally 



instruct groups of pupils in the school gardens and visit home 

 /ardcn>. Some school systems provid ial teacher to 



c-u-ry large -chool. or to two smaller schools, who is unassignc-d 

 to a mploycd mainly to make the graded 



school sy-tem more elastic by aiding pupils who are slow to 

 comprehend, or who have lost work through absence, to 

 maintain or regain class standing, and by helping the ablest 

 j)upils to skip grades without loss of essentials. This appeals 

 to all. the most conservative included, as worth the expense. 

 Incidentally, such a teacher makes it possible to conduct field 

 study by groups of pupils with an effectiveness seldom at- 

 tained by regular class teacher-. She is also available to 

 take groups of pupils into the garden for systematic work in 

 planting and culture. I'ndcr this plan it is wholly possible 

 to secure a teacher in each school who shall be thoroughly 

 competent to give garden instruction and thus ensure full 

 success from the start. 



School Gardening for Profit 



While the true purpose of a school garden or a child's 

 home garden is educational, it may often best attain this end 

 when it becomes commercially successful, at least to the 

 extent of becoming self-supporting. A school garden will 

 naturally give many plants to its pupils as prizes to stimulate 



