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Fic. 3. An individual plot garden with paths between the plots. 
cult for him in the earlier years and without repetition 
in the higher grades of the simpler facts with which he is 
already familiar. In agricultural sections especially, 
the teaching of gardening naturally and progressively 
leads to the more advanced teaching of agriculture. 
This flexibility and exhaustlessness of the subject is 
another reason why the teaching of gardening has been 
so successful in the schools. 
The organizaticn of the practice work in gardening 
has received much attention. Several types of gardens 
have been successfully developed in meeting the various 
conditions existing in different communities. 
The school garden or school farm of individual plots is 
one in which each pupil of the school or of certain grade 
