I0 PREFACE. 



separated from the other garden. Nursery, experimental 

 garden and vegetable garden may be laid out in recti- 

 linear beds, but masked with shrubbery ; the other gar- 

 den should, at least in cities, take more of a landscape 

 character. 



The expense, if the ground is a f level one, may be only 

 fifty florins ; it may be five hundred, indeed, a thousand 

 or more if one is not afraid of the cost. The best argu- 

 ment for meeting the expense is the numerous school 

 gardens, which, according to the ideas laid down in ' 

 this pamphlet, were newly planned or wholly transformed. 

 The idea of the school garden is a great one in its bear- 

 ing upon instruction and education ; but it is also a 

 fitting and unanswerable one. That national econo- 

 mists and scientifically cultivated land-owners promise 

 the school garden a great future ; that naturalists, that 

 medical writers welcome this idea gladly, was apparent 

 from the beginning. Also prominent pedagogues sym- 

 pathized with the proposals of the author immediately 

 and unconditionally. Letters from the most various 

 portions of Austria and Germany, and from Italy and 

 England, express cordial interest. The periodical and 

 daily press have been equally favorable. 



This unanimous support of sober and of enthusiastic, 

 and also of experienced men in all conditions of life, 

 was also shared by the unprejudiced circles in Austria. 

 The Ministry of Instruction in Hungary, all the school 

 inspectors and normal institutions, have taken part in 

 the public school garden, and given it their earnest 

 furtherance. The Royal Imperial Ministry of Agricul- 

 ture have sent my pamphlet to all their agricultural so- 

 cieties and teachers' institutes, with an invitation to 

 notice it in their official documents. Thereupon the K. 



