SCHOOL GARDENS 19 
Flower and Vegetable Garden.— In cities and towns, 
where the pupils live conveniently near the schoolhouse, a 
flower and vegetable garden may be operated successfully 
all summer, if a competent director is employed to super- 
vise the children’s work during the vacation. One of the 
chief aims of such an enterprise should be to stimulate more 
attention to home gardening. 
' In the ordinary type of rural school this sort of garden has 
not often been a success. The seeds may be sown in the 
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spring and about the time they begin to grow there comes 
the long vacation. Then the garden is surrendered to the 
weeds, and nothing else can be found when the pupils return 
for the fall term. This lesson in neglect is likely to offset 
such benefits as were derived from the planting operations 
in the spring. 
Codperate with the Home. — Whether or not the school 
has a flower and vegetable garden, its most important office 
is to codperate with the gardening activities of the home. 
The school interests must be identified with the home inter- 
ests, and in this matter it is especially easy to meet this re- 
quirement. From the various studies in plant growth the 
pupil should get practical and scientific knowledge that 
