CHAPTER II. 



A SCHOOL GARDEN A PART OF THE SCIENCE OF HOME 

 AND NATURE. 



The school gardens will contain at least a few mul- 

 berry trees wherever the raising of silk worms is possi- 

 ble or called for. But it cannot be denied that the cul- 

 tivation of fruit is the most desirable, and that this had 

 better be well established before the silk culture is at- 

 tempted. 



The school garden, while attending to what is neces- 

 sary and useful, must be sure not 'to neglect what is 

 beautiful and pleasant for the children, and must not 

 fail to provide beautiful flowers by which the sense of 

 color shall be awakened in them. The culture of flow- 

 ers must be looked upon as instructive, educational and 

 moral in its effect. Where the school garden is neces- 

 sarily too small for other things, only flowers must be 

 raised. The point to be aimed at is that the children 

 shall love their work. 



The incentive to gardening will be still more power- 

 ful, if ornamental shrubs are included, which may be 

 planted singly or united in a pretty shrubbery. Where 

 there is water in a school garden, or very near it, irtter- 

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