L. L. MAY & CO. 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Putting up School Garden Orders 
a practical demonstration of school gardening when he estab- 
lished, and managed, more than eight hundred individual 
gardens. 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, last year, had a wonder- 
ful system of home and school gardens and computed the 
value of the crop harvested from these children's gardens 
to be $50,000.00, while the cost of production was $6,154.55, 
and this is not taking into consideration the pedagogical 
value of the gardens at all. 
HINTS TO THE TEACHER 
The actual lessons that may be derived by the clever 
teacher from this "play-work," are almost illimitable: The 
great principle of cause and effect is amply illustrated; a 
study of the soil, and its components, opens a field as vast 
as the ages, and may be made the foundation for later geo- 
logic studies, or, treated from a chemic standpoint, may make 
a sound practical basis for later chemistry work both organic 
and inorganic. 
Plant development is a self evident lesson, 
but cell development may be explained with it, and the nucleus 
of botanical study implanted in the child's mind. In other 
words, it will be from their utilitarian side, that the child 
