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The Garden Magazine, June, 192 
if 
CHILDREN’S GARDENS 
T HE Salisbury Association of Salisbury 
Connecticut, has for the last three yea; 
employed a young woman to be supervisor < 
children’s gardens throughout the town, and t 
give her whole time during the growing season t 
visiting the children in their own homes, advisin 
them as to what to plant; how to care for the 
growing plants; how to have two crops from th 
same piece of ground; and giving that person; 
encouragement that means so much to the chile 
Miss Esther Frink, with her agricultural colleg 
training, her thorough understanding of the chile 
with the consequent love of the children for he; 
is doing a splendid work. 
At a recent meeting of the local Garden Clu 
Miss Frink spoke on “What it Means to Conduc 
a Children’s Garden Exhibit.” It had bee 
found, she said, that the exhibit serves principall 
to interest the grown-ups, and to prove to ther 
that the children are doing something. Th 
majority of the children do not like to exhibi 
their vegetables, doing so only to please thei 
garden supervisor; for the reason that the chil 
knows the exhibited products do not form 
fair basis upon which to found a judgment of hi 
season’s work in the garden. It takes an expei 
to have vegetables or flowers at their best for 
specified date. Some children with very goo> 
gardens positively refuse to exhibit, so that th 
exhibition is not a test of the best garden wor 
among the children. Some, having a pride i; 
their products, fear that what they have workei 
so hard for will not be returned to them. 
In the discussion that followed, it was sug 
gested that as the prize offered does not alway 
stimulate the interest of all who might compete— 
for, while it may be a good thing to own some 
thing else, some particular plant, seed, or tool 
that would cost no more, is longed for by th 
child — it would therefore seem better to let th 
child choose, within the limits of a specifiec 
amount, the thing he wishes. 
In many cases the parents give no encourage 
ment whatever to the children. Miss Frink toll 
of one little girl who could find only a few squan 
feet of clear ground in the centre of the homi 
garden plot, which consisted of a half acn 
strewn with tin cans and other junk. Whei 1! 
asked how soon her father was going to plow th< 
garden, Nellie answered: “He isn’t going to plow ut 
he said he isn’t going to have a garden.” “ Then,’ 
said the teacher, “ I hope father will be very^ 
very hungry next winter.” Finally, the teacher 
understanding the case, said: “Nellie, you tel 
father I want that garden plowed, and it must b< ‘ 
ready by Thursday night.” The bit of lane 
was cleared and plowed, and Nellie had a prize], 
garden. 
The Garden Club decided to offer prizes foi 
the growing of flowers about the home, the 
awards to be made, not upon the basis of tht 
best flowers exhibited, but upon that of the best's 
work for the season as adjudged by Miss Frink.— 
David S. George, Salisbury, Conn. 
