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PARK AND CRMBTERY 
>Some Children’s Gardens. 
BY MRS. HERMAN J. HALL, PRESIDENT WOMAN’S AUXILIARY A. P. & O. A. A. 
Too much cannot be said about the gardens pre- 
pared either by or for the children of our people, who 
at last seem to realize that the progress of municipal 
art in America rests almost entirely with the coming 
generation. This because of the prevailing lack of 
knowledge in design which must come by education 
along art lines; by the slow growth of plants, espe- 
cities and towns can boast of this improvement. 
It is not only the fashion to plant out of doors, for 
the instruction and enjoyment of children, but tO' 
place- growing flowers in the school room and in many 
places to follow the fashion of a certain girls’ school 
in Paris and plant the courts of buildings with horti- 
c’dt’.’.r'il decorations. .A.mong the notable examples are 
1— NORTH END OE 
COURT, HELICON 
HALL. BEDROOMS 
OPEN FROM CORRI- 
DOR. 
2 AND 3— INTERIOR AND 
EXTERIOR OF LA 
CASA DE ROSES, 
LOS ANGELES. CAL. 
4 - SOUTH END OF 
COURT, HELICON 
HALL. FIRE PLACE 
AND LIVING ROOMS 
BEYOND. 
5- RUSSIAN SETTLE- 
MENT GARDEN, 
CHERRY ST., MIL- 
WAUKEE. 
daily trees, and the absence of the trained visual sense 
in the masses, who do not appreciate the need of ver- 
dure about architecture in order that an attractive 
ensemble may be obtained. However, the increase of 
European travel among our intelligent countrymen 
each year, as well as the scathing criticisms of foreign 
visitors, has done wonders to set the wheels of land- 
scape art in motion. 
Planting in connection with schools was introduced 
into this country about twelve years ago and was an 
outcome of the German teachers’ garden attached to 
Normal institutions. Now something like a hundred 
the boys’ school at Helicon Hall, Englewood, N. J.,. 
and the girls’ school at Los Angeles, Cal. 
At Helicon Hall the court is covered with a glass^ 
roof that may be removed in summer. Groups of rub- 
ber, fig and banana trees form a superb background for 
the lower varieties of palms, camelias, etc. A mantel 
and other adjuncts of interior architecture carry out 
the idea of a garden room. Here the meals are often 
served and classes heard. The conception of this 
beauty spot is due to the principal, Mr. John Craig, 
who believes with many of our progressive thinkers, 
that the country needs more accon’plished agricultur- 
