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interests will seriously clash. As a matter of fact each is vitally 

 important in its own way. The combination of playground 

 and garden, if well managed, has really a good deal to recom- 

 mend it. Well-defined boundaries, of course, there would have 

 to be, and the garden would need some special means of pro- 

 tection. For instance, one large city playground, laid out a 

 few years ago by a civic association, is bordered by a strip of 

 garden land divided into beds two or three feet in width. 



THE FIRST ATTACK 



The suburban and country gardener often has good reason 

 to grumble. But his grievances are a drop in the bucket com- 

 pared with those of a city gardener, who is often at his wits' 

 end to adapt a garden to his surroundings. Scant sunshine, 

 shallow soil, or even a sun-baked pavement are likely to be 

 his portion. 



Whoever is bent on starting a school garden begins, of 

 course, by inspecting the school yard. Nearly every school 

 building has a yard, or an apology for one, which can some- 

 how be turned to account. Even supposing it is bricked, 



