SCHOOL GARDENS IN AMERICA 



specialist and more time than is now allotted 

 to it. Such a specialist, employed by five or 

 six schools and required to give the whole, or 

 part, of one day each week to each school, would 

 seem to me to meet the need, and supply what 

 in some counties of the province has come to 

 be an urgent demand." 



School Garden, San Piadro, Porto Rico. 



The school-garden movement has reached 

 Jamaica, Porto Rico and other islands of the 

 West Indies, and reports from the West Indian 

 Bulletin show how important and essential this 

 phase of practical work is considered in the 

 educational development of the islands. Its 

 study includes air, soil, seeds, weeds, grasses, 



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