General View of School Garden, 6ist Street, Los Angeles 



Agriculture in the Elementary Schools of Los Angeles 



City 



Clayton F. Palmer 



Supervisor of Agriculture and Nature Study, Los Angeles, Cal. 



The Agriculture Department was established in Los Angeles 

 City in 191 2, and has enjoyed a steady, vigorous growth. At the 

 present time it is composed of a supervisor, four assistants and 

 about forty teachers, all of whom spend full time in teaching 

 agriculture. In addition to these, there are a number of part- 

 time garden teachers, who look after the gardening at their schools 

 besides their regular grade work. The city maintains over one 

 hundred school gardens, sixty-five of which are in part or wholly 

 on borrowed ground. With one or two exceptions, no rentals 

 are paid for use of such land. Over thirteen thousand pupils are 

 receiving regular instruction in school gardening, and many others 

 receive such irregularly. Fifty schools have a teacher two days a 

 week, twenty-six schools three days a week, twelve schools a 

 teacher one day a week, and as indicated above, several schools are 

 in charge of a regular grade teacher. 



While the department has a definite course of study, this is 

 used more as a guide, the work in the different schools differing 



*This article was held over from The School Garden Number of The Nature 

 Study Review. 



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