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Irrigating a School Garden in Los Angeles, Cal. 
School Gardens in Los Angeles, Cal. 
Probably in no other city in America is the school garden movement 
better organized, and more successfully carried on, than in Los Angeles, 
California. We have before us the 1914 report of Clayton F. Palmer, 
Supervisor of the Agricultural Department, who has general supervision 
of all school garden work. We would like to reprint the entire report 
for the benefit of other cities, but as it is quite lengthy we must be 
content with a few of the most important features of their work as 
follows: 
The Agricultural Department of the Los Angeles City Schools was 
organized in the summer of 1912. Up to this time the schools had been 
doing more or less gardening, but it lacked organization, being dependent 
on volunteer teachers and intersted principals, but they did sufficient to 
prove the value of the work. At first the city was divided into four 
districts. These districts were assigned to special teachers who are acting 
to a considerable degree as district supervisors. 
By conferences with principals and teachers, and frequent visits to 
schools doing any gardening, the work was gradually organized. From 
the first the Board of Education has given the gardening movement 
excellent support. 
We have a printed form that is signed by those allowing us the use 
of ground for gardening, and which gives the Board the right to remove 
any improvements they place upon these lots. Having secured permits 
to use the lots, we requisition the Board to pipe water upon the lots, 
and usually to plow them. The fertilizer problem has been a vexatious 
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