50 THE SCHOOL GARDEN. 



public and burger schools of the city to a special com- 

 mittee, by which all necessary measures will be taken, 

 .and all preliminary questions settled before the 28th of 

 August, 1875, m order to lay out the first school gardens 

 for the various kinds of school-houses. This is a fine, 

 happy beginning. 



WHAT TO DO IN SMALL TOWNS. 



In the smaller cities, where there is no space in the 

 direct neighborhood of the school-houses, places must 

 be obtained by cession or purchase. 



The way will be well opened for future school gardens 

 when in all the recitation-rooms pots of leaf plants and 

 flowers will be found, which do well in moist rooms in- 

 habited by many people, and when all the windows of 

 the school-houses, so far as they do not too much im- 

 pede the sunshine, are adorned with flowering plants. 

 Cords, or, still better, fine wires must be used to fasten 

 up the flower pots safely. Children will be glad to 

 bring plants from home, to exchange them again for 

 others when they are out of bloom, and carry home in 

 the autumn what must be kept there through the 

 winter. 



It is not difficult to take the idea, if one is once con- 

 vinced of the necessity of school gardens, that a school 

 garden for girls must be arranged differently in some 

 respects from one made for boys. Forest trees can 

 be grown in both if there is room for them ; but flowers 

 and vegetables should play a chief part in the girls' 

 gardens, and the culture of chamber plants should not 

 be neglected. Both boys and girls should learn what 

 belongs in a pleasant home garden ; the boys should 



