Vacant Lots Cultivation in Philadelphia 
THE LARGEST SCHOOL GARDEN IN AMERICA, WITH PROVISION FOR A THOUSAND CHILDREN 
Each child wives an hour and 
o 
not less than 50 “graduate” laborers who 
are now working along independent lines. 
The eagerness with which children in the 
poorer sections of the city take to practical 
gardening is most encouraging. Miss Helen 
Bennett, who is deeply interested in this branch 
of the work, thus speaks of it: “ We gave each 
child a plot four feet six inches by eleven feet 
six inches, and they take the keenest delight 
in caring for it 
a half daily to its cul¬ 
tivation, and the pro¬ 
ceeds from the sale of 
what vegetables they 
raise belongs to them. 
Some netted 90 cents 
and others $2.15 from 
theirwork. This year 
we hope to provide a 
twenty-foot plot for 
each child, which will 
enable the best gar¬ 
deners to earn from 
$15.00 to $20.00 in the 
course of a summer. 
When I tell you that 
we had 716 applica¬ 
tions for our 250 
plots, you will appre¬ 
ciate what interest the JUVENILE HUC 
children take in the They 
work. Besides planting and cultivating, we 
teach the children to take care of the tool 
houses. The hoys painted those structures 
last summer, while the girls kept them clean 
and laundried the window curtains. Each 
plot containing from one to six hundred gar¬ 
dens is surrounded by a three-foot fence, which 
any boy can climb. This, 1 believe minimizes 
the danger of depredation, and it is a fact that 
we lost only about $5.00 worth of vegetables 
KSTERS ON THE DELIVERY SERVICE 
get twenty per cent, on all orders 
