4 HOW TO MAKE SCHOOL GARDENS 
school grounds the use of a nearby vacant 
lot can often be obtained. 
For lower grades it probably is as well 
to have a general bed or garden. The 
conditions of every place will have to be 
considered ; but where conditions are 
favorable for the individual garden, it 
gives a certain amount of responsibility 
and interest that the general garden does 
not. It shows exactly what the individ- 
ual is doing and helps to develop the 
individuality of the child. Very often, 
too, the excellence of several of these 
individual gardens will inspire those to 
much more careful work who naturally 
are inclined to be a little slack. 
Where possible, it is better to grow 
both vegetables and flowers. This de- 
velops both the esthetic and the prac- 
tical side of the pupil, and soon the child 
who does not love flowers, if there be 
such, will love the flowers that he raises, 
and in so loving them will be uplifted. 
In growing crops, grow common things. 
Those who have plenty of land can grow 
