INTRODUCTION 
The idea of having a garden connected 
with the school is a very old one. 
Gardening was practised in some European 
schools many years ago, and was carried 
on often for the purpose of increasing the 
salary of the teacher or for furnishing 
products for him. In other schools 
there were botanical gardens where the 
specimens could be studied by the pupils. 
The school-garden movement as it exists 
to-day is of more recent origin, beginning 
about thirty-five years ago. The progress 
has been most rapid in Europe, where 
there are to-day more than one hundred 
thousand school gardens ; France alone 
has more than twenty-eight thousand, and 
in Russia, as in several other countries, no 
school will be accepted by the state to 
receive state funds unless a garden is 
connected with it. In America, the school- 
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