60 THE SCHOOL GARDEN. 



DIFFERENT KINDS OF GARDENS. 



The different kinds of school gardens may be desig- 

 ated as : i. The country school garden. 2. The school 

 garden for small cities. 3. The school garden for large 

 cities. The country school garden, and the large city 

 school garden, may be taken as the two poles. 



FURTHER PARTICULARS. , 



In the country school garden, the central point is 

 constituted by the " experiment garden for boys/ 7 and 

 the kitchen garden and nursery, which divide the terri- 

 tory into two nearly equal parts. The borders which 

 encompass the beds can be planted alternately with 

 dwarf fruit trees, between which in the kitchen garden 

 strawberries and medicinal plants ; and in the " experi- 

 ment garden," economical and commercial plants will 

 find their place. Where the woods are very near, forest 

 trees and bushes need not take up the room in the 

 garden. 



The large country school garden requires the beauty 

 of landscape gardening. In Galizia, through the in- 

 fluence of the author, school gardens have a park-like 

 character, and only the garden land proper is limited 

 by straight lines. But in small school gardens, the 

 ground must be used as far as possible for agricultural 

 purposes. The paths in small school gardens will 

 therefore be narrow and straight. The more valuable 

 fruit trees cannot be in great numbers ; and wall fruit 

 and grape vines must be left out, as these do not belong 

 to the first and essential instruction of the garden. If 

 the garden is small, the beehive must be dispensed 

 with; but in the background of all school gardens a 



