THE SCHOOL GARDEN. 



longer dry up and be frost-bitten in summer, and the 

 produce of the fields will not prove abortive on fruitful 

 land, since the woods, as a medium between earth and 

 air, regulate all climatic extremes. 



HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS, ETC. 



It is not to be overlooked, at the same time, that not 

 only must the land become richer and more beautiful,^ 

 but also more healthy, when the hand of man produces 

 such extensive sources of oxygen and purifiers of the 

 air. 



All the points of view here enumerated the promo- 

 tion of the welfare of the people, the beautifying of the 

 land, the combating of our meteorological conditions, 

 etc. will often in realization be connected with greater 

 objects. This may be shown by an example which will 

 directly illustrate the part that may be played by school 

 gardens in the neighborhood of a great city. 



Vienna lies in the midst of a beautiful country on the 

 spurs of the most beautiful mountain chain on the earth. 

 The landscape around Vienna can by no means be 

 called a poor one ; but if you compare the environs of 

 Vienna with those of Paris, an astonishingly great dif- 

 ference may be seen. Paris lies bedded in a garland of 

 gardens ; and the agriculture in the neighborhood of the 

 capital understands how to use all the means of modern 

 science in glorious measure, and to convert the refuse 

 of that world city into a rich blessing of cultivation. 

 Vienna exhibits before its gates many an example of a 

 perverted agriculture, in its fallow land. The cultiva- 

 tion of vegetables in the neighborhood of Vienna is 

 hardly carried on at all. Scarcely any thing but the com- 

 monest kinds of fruit trees are cultivated \ pod fruits in 



