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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 Fn<ST 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, 



