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School  Gardens. 
A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1908. 
cles  for  sale  in  other  places  than  pharmacies  or  drug  stores.  I  hold, 
further,  that  the  making  of  such  dangerous  preparations  as  the 
spirit  of  bitter  almond  (which  may  be  taken  as  an  example)  is  not 
a  safe  article  in  the  hands  of  anybody  but  a  qualified  pharmacist, 
and  the  only  safe  place  for  its  disposal  is  a  pharmacy,  and  not  a 
general  store.  This  is  of  great  importance  to  us  pharmacists  to  know, 
and  also  to  know  the  opinion  as  handed  down  by  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Illinois  in  the  case  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Pharmacy 
against  a  Chinese  laundryman  prosecuted  for  selling  opium.  In 
handing  down  the  decision  the  Court  held: 
First :  That  opium  is  a  drug  and  not  an  article  of  ordinary  mer- 
chandise. 
Second  :  That  any  place  where  drugs  and  medicines  are  sold  is 
a  drug  store  within  the  law ;  and  I  hold,  genlemen,  that  this  deci- 
sion is  of  the  greatest  importance  to  us.  It  defines  the  drug  store 
and  the  position  of  the  pharmacist.  The  substances  mentioned  are 
as  much  drugs  as  opium,  and  the  preparations  of  oil  of  bitter 
almond  more  dangerous  than  opium;  therefore  the  drug  store  is 
the  proper  place  for  their  sale,  the  pharmacists  their  rightful  manu- 
facturers, and  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  the  proper  standard 
within  the  law. 
SCHOOL  GARDENS. 
By  William  McIntyre, 
Chairman  of  Committee  on  Special  Schools,  Board  of  Public  Education, 
Philadelphia. 
For  many  years  school  gardens  have  been  a  feature  of  public 
school  education  in  Europe,  and,  to  quote  Helen  C.  Bennett,1  "  An 
idea  of  the  extent  to  which  this  branch  of  education  is  carried  on  in 
European  countries  may  be  obtained  from  the  statement  that  in 
Austria  there  are  no  less  than  8,000  school  gardens ;  in  Sweden, 
2,0 1 6 ;  while  in  France  practical  gardening  is  taught  in  2,800  pri- 
mary and  elementary  schools."  And  now  a  widespread  movement 
for  their  establishment  exists  in  the  United  States,  school  farms 
having  been  conducted  in  some  of  the  larger  cities  of  the  East, 
notably  New  York,  Boston,  Philadelphia  and  Washington  for  some 
1  The  American  Monthly  Review  of  Reviews,  April,  1904. 
