Show School Garden Education Every child chUd likes to play In the mud and and dirt tot to make sand houses to plant a and even caves mud pies of trees garden breaking off the twigs and pulling weeds which are carefully diversion diversion diversion diver diver- planted and watered furnishing sion and pleasure for the day It isan is isan isan I an easy matter to direct the x youthful ut u mind a little further along this line line unu and Interest it in a real miniature gar gar- den It Is not an untried theory but buta a fact abundantly proven in all the large largo and many of our small cities P Philadelphia has what are called Municipal Gardens Boston has a dozen School Gardens Chicago Detroit Washington Cleveland Los Angeles In fact almost all cities clUes have successfully worked out either the school garden or the vacant lot cultivation cultivation cultivation Idea two separate propositions it is true but closely allied amed The school garden Idea opens up an easy and agreeable avenue to what proves more of a diversion than a task to the young New York has only one such farm garden but on Its one or two acres the children plant and raise both flowers and vegetables while In an extemporized cookhouse house they prepare preparo the vegetables for the table and enjoy the flavor of the fruits of their labor Besides this instruction In the culinary art a bedroom In miniature furnishes an opportunity for the girls to learn how to care for rooms In Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia tho the relation of the municipal gardens and the schools is intimate But Dut to see this Idea worked out perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps at Its best one must study it asit as asIt asIt It Is In Boston There Thero a private organization organization organ organ- known as the School Garden Association for lor six years or more has hasteen been teen developing little centers where the children delight to plant and cultivate cult cult- vate furnishing object lessons of the utility of such work which it Is hoped may lead to its addition to the school curriculum and with this ide Idea In mind these school gardens are located quite generally on land adjacent to unes some of the regular school teachers gladly acting the part of ot instructors The effect upon the little workers In these plots is In every way happy and should lead to their more general use I |