Castor Bean, Pumpkin and Beet grown by Alfa Bailey, 13, Freeland, Mich. 
The Home Garden 
The School Garden, properly speaking, is a garden in connection with 
the public school. In many instances where land for a school garden is 
not available, the teacher will encourage home gardens, and in a measure 
superintend them. A combination of the two is the ideal plan, as the 
child carries into effect in the home garden the ideas gathered in the 
school garden. 
Because there is no available land for a school garden is no reason 
why teachers should not oe interested in the work, as a majority of 
educators consider the home garden the most practical and satisfactory. 
There are many reasons why the home garden should be encouraged. 
Mr. Veron Landis of Cincinnati, O., a well known authority on the 
subject, has expressed our ideas so nicely that I am taking the liberty 
of quoting in part from him. 
“The home garden gives every child an opportunity to have a garden. 
In many school gardens the limited space only permits a small percentage 
of pupils to enjoy the privilege and advantage of a garden.” 
“The home garden develops individuality, as the child may choose 
the plants he wishes to grow, and how he will arrange them. He enjoys 
in every respect a freedom which is not possible in the school garden. 
“The home garden because it allows more freedom, tends to make 
the interest in gardening greater, and more permanent. He may experi¬ 
ment, and study the nature and requirements of each variety as he could 
not do in the school garden. 
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