CHAPTER VI 



SELECTION OF SITE AND PRELIMINARY OPERATIONS 



FOR convenience in carrying out the practical work and the 

 associated indoor work it is important that the garden should be 

 near the school building, and, provided that it can be securely 

 fenced in, it is desirable that it should be open to the view of 

 those passing by in the road : the interest and sympathy of people 



FIG. 44 Diagram showing how the direction of slope of the surface of the soil affects 

 the quantity of heat and light received from the sun. 



living in the neighbourhood is thus stimulated. The garden 

 must also be near a satisfactory water supply, as the necessity 

 for fetching water from a distance takes up valuable time and 

 tends to disorganise the work. The best soil available should be 

 secured, as, although there are some advantages in watching the 

 gradual amelioration of a piece of unfertile ground, these advan- 

 tages are more than counterbalanced by the discouraging slowness 

 of the process in the case of very light or very heavy soils. The 

 garden ground should be either horizontal or should have a gentle 

 slope south-east, south-west, or west. A slope towards the north, 



