46 THE SCHOOL GARDEN. 



school-house or standing in the yard, or when the walls 

 of the yard or the gymnastic ground are ornamented 

 with perennial green, or with shrubs in the corners, 

 or when large flower pots rilled with blooming plants 

 stand around on pyramidal flower stands. So in Vienna 

 the city pedagogium is ornamented with a little terrace 

 on the roof, containing a little iron house with a stove in 

 it for the winter. A still smaller space in some broad 

 passage-way or in another light room in the school- 

 house may be appropriated to this priceless purpose. 

 How much better, when a real, rational, suitable school- 

 garden is arranged for the city child ! Every tree in the 

 city is a quiet watch over its health, a source of oxygen, 

 an ornament, a refreshment. The time will at last 

 come, when, as in Italy, every city will have its Com- 

 mittee of Improvement, whose task it shall be, after 

 the example of many cities of North America, England 

 and France, to beautify the squares and streets with 

 rows and groups of trees wherever it does not interrupt 

 traffic. Whoever has once learnt in the school garden 

 to love trees, will ever after feel it to be an imperative 

 want to plant and to beautify. 



WHAT ONE CITY CAN DO. 



Already an area of seventy square metres is offered for 

 a city school garden in Vienna. Since there will be no 

 room for woody growths here, they have been raised in 

 flower pots (according to Prof. Eichert's plan), by a 

 private citizen or a society (the Horticultural Society), 

 in time to be loaned to the school. Our park and forest 

 trees found room on a table at the Exposition, and the 

 children had an opportunity to learn to know quite dis- 



