CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



dressmaking and cooking. As a part of their 

 five years' course in Nature Study, the girls 

 make and care for a school garden. The gar- 

 den-plot, forty by twenty-four feet, is divided 

 into small beds for vegetables, fruits and flow- 

 t ers, each girl having a patch of her own for 

 which she is responsible. As this outdoor work 

 may be done all the year with no intermission 

 for snow and ice, the girls can always exhibit 

 well-kept beds of Carnations, Marigolds, Asters, 

 Lilies, and some Hawaiian varieties of flowers. 

 The Hawaiians as a race are lovers of flowers 

 and music, and it is natural therefore that these 

 girls should have more interest in flowers than 

 in vegetables. One of their great pleasures is 

 to braid or string the blossoms into leis (neck- 

 laces) for favorite teachers or departing friends. 

 During the past year the vegetable garden 

 has yielded corn, cucumbers, and lettuce, enough 

 to supply in their time the different school 

 dining-tables. A short time each day is spent 

 by every girl in her garden-plot, and on Satur- 

 day morning all the girls don their native hats 

 and work for an hour in the school garden. 



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