Show P PROBLEMS OF SCHOOl GARDENS AT ASSOCIATION MEETING Portland Woman Tells How j Movement Started There and of Results Obtained i j jAt At the session of time the School Garden Association of ot America which h operates In conjunction with tho thin N. N 13 g. A. A held yesterday morning outline of oC the tho work in Oregon and moro more especially in ill Portland wa was given Iven 1 by Miss Iss Alee Alice Joyce Joce Speakers front from various parts of ot- ot the thc United States tates were also heard from Crom tics Miss Ies Jo Joyces Joyce's cos Address which was Wl accompanied ac ae- ac- ac companied by Illustrative slides follows tel fol ollow ol- ol lows low In part loll 1911 1 whon when two l In tho the fall faU of ot tto new now teachers In hi one due ie of ot the Portland grammar grant gram x i. i mar school buildings surveyed the tho I beautiful scenery surrounding their school building their attention was a wa directed di- di reeled to the tract covered with wih young youns firs Cra diagonally across thin the tie street Ono One of the teachers remarked What hat a I glorious place for Cor a school chool garden Jarden When hen the they spoke to their principal concerning it they found Uc iso was In Intensely Intensely In- In tensely Interested t r d. d had b buei 1 assisting th the pupils with wih homo home u ion r inn rs for fv years rears but had not alter 01 tile the community com COin garden gardell so 50 th tho that tim the tho teachers desired one w s gratefully re received ro- ro calved and later Ilter he appointed ap a garden committee fr p fi fr I. I How Thie They I t r d. d wore 10 ino president Ii IJ LI dent and secretary of or our National School chool Garden department of oC agriculture Cornell un university Luther Luther Lu Lu- ther timer Burbank antI and various othor places places- that might assist by Hu suggestions or lit literature literature lit lit- 11 and later the thc most In interesting teres replies read to the tho pupils j The Tho city librarian sent a garden arden li Ii 1 to the school also back numbers of the Garden Magazine tho tile school In Inthe scriber time the meantime becoming a regular aub sub I When weather permitted the principal principal prin prin- cipal asked how man many boys hoys could conic como the next Saturday to help clear the 2 24 2 acre tract which tho tile owner had consented COI- COI con coti- to let lel them use their answer was 19 u it I joyous shout hout showing that thal a u. tru true garden spirit had been awakened D By B o ha lma following Saturday April I IO 20 O It Il hail had been plowed and staked Apri so that each teacher r was tas WIS assigned a t see ace celon tion lon where every pupil pupi In her hem room ml might ht have ha e a plot eight tot feet by ten feet a path surrounding each group roup of oC of six Individual gardens This is Lh the tho Woodlawn school garden gurden the tile v pioneer i- i garden of or Portland Public In I Interested In tile the meantime the business men of ot the various clubs organized e den a gaiden hal gai f contest offering prizes to the best school gardens I i h homo home gardens ar ens and In- In 11 1 t a. v thUI Ule exhibit was ns held Juno 15 15 In 1912 In III the tue Armory o It was a n revelation to the tIle people to see tho the results of or the children's childrens efforts and they were welo tUl fully awakened to the possibilities tics bi of tIme the school garden This pardon garden contest was reorganized in They succeeded in getting twenty seven schools to with them with the results operate co-operate including Woodlawn's 55 gardeners the city schools year enrolled gardeners this Among tho tIlo homo home gardens a boy D 9 years of ago age was the pride of thin tho city when he showed his the tho exhibit ono one vegetables nt at 5 gentleman remarked If school gardening brings 5 forth boys like this we must have havo more school gardening Have Juvenile Market Nor are tIme tho men doing everything to support and encourage the work Through thin the efforts of Mr Mrs Evans Evan president of the Women's clubs s a building has Ilas been market donated where a Ju- Ju la is conducted daily since the tho exhibit June 27 Children may t bring vegetables from the gardens cakes bread or Jelly that hint they have ilave made mado fruit that they thet have earned by picking and even pets that they liars have raised or wish to dispose of and it is being patronized by the best of tile the city people nit tuy 1 water toy for the tho gay gar various dens Mail Many tools seeds etc arc aro tom firms Ono One lumber furnished boards for planting company also for a fence to enclose the garden Very little has been done for or the tho vacation gardens but I think tile the plans for tile the new year will care caro for them also In some places the abandoned Individual gardens gardenia are arc being planted in potatoes beans endive tilL and similar adapted to a later season Tile The teacher should have till full charge of the garden work not handicapped in lim any way nay by supervision unless weakness shows and then the help should bo be asked directly teacher by the Other addresses were given bv hr Ruth of Lincoln Neb K F. E E. E N N. N C. C A. A Kennedy Wel Sask J. J B. B Corcoran Fresno Cal I. I L. L E K Wolfe Tr ronn nn i T I w. w Wilkinson M. M J. J Abbe Abbey Salt Lake the Mr A. A Kennedy quoted If school gardens do not IlOt offer an all Integral element In education then they may as well vell bo lie abandoned but if they are fundamental In the tho development of efficient citizens they command and steady support van support Van Evrie Kilpatrick New Nest York City president School Garden Association of America One of the most important and es es- es features of such u a great movement move move- ment as the school garden Is that of finances Three plans movement have havo been tried The first was the establishing of time the MacDonald 1903 rural school fund fluid In So long as this fund able tile the was available avail avail- movement prospered but soon as tile the fund ns as school was withdrawn time tho gardening ceased 4 The second plan pian by provincial consisted of grants JJ linI ili ilo or state government to 4 ui This to LU teachers point of attack is falling failing because it arouses only an artificial interest The third plan is based principle on the Involved in the quoted meted above By statement appealing to the tue directly people through the usual school taxes it is possible to Interest all of tho people and have then them school realize that gardening is essentially This same plan of financing t uch movements id Iti also In school proving sue sue- mu music Ic and In school decorations At 2 o'clock in the afternoon members the tho of tho association by their in tho tue friends and those in in- in work the wore were taken to vacant lot gardens of Salt Lake I |