. Among School Gardens . ve every boy a pieceof ground, however small, to cultivate for tenyears of his boyhood. Last summer, in Provi-dence, an incorrigible truant had one of the prizegardens. Under gardens for special purposes, one mightmention those in connection with day camps fortuberculous children, such as the one conductedduring the summer of 1909 in connection withBellevue Hospital, New York. Each day somefifty children were gathered there on the floatinghospital boat moored to the dock, with a gangwaycrossing to that part of the hospital yard whichformerly held the dump heap. Thanks
. Among School Gardens . ve every boy a pieceof ground, however small, to cultivate for tenyears of his boyhood. Last summer, in Provi-dence, an incorrigible truant had one of the prizegardens. Under gardens for special purposes, one mightmention those in connection with day camps fortuberculous children, such as the one conductedduring the summer of 1909 in connection withBellevue Hospital, New York. Each day somefifty children were gathered there on the floatinghospital boat moored to the dock, with a gangwaycrossing to that part of the hospital yard whichformerly held the dump heap. Thanks to theinterest of the International School Farm League,the Womans Auxiliary of the hospital, and the 62 DIFFERENT KINDS OF SCHOOL GARDENS authorities of the latter, who gave the use of theground, a school garden was laid out with somefifty little 4x8 beds for vegetables and flowers,and space for more flowers in the borders. Underthe guidance of a skilful teacher, who had beentrained in the DeWitt Clinton Park garden, the. ( ••fvnqJit, IQOQ, by Uitdrncood &= Underwood Garden at Bellevue Hospital, New York City children were allowed to cultivate their plots fromhalf an hour to an hour each day according to theirstrength. With such occupation the hours lostsome of their monotony, were happier, and broughtbetter health and more resources and pleasures,not only for the present but for future in the city, school gardens of difierent kinds63 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS may be separated or may overlap, or be foundrepresented in a large model garden, so, in ruraldistricts, there may be combination or singlenessof plan. The school garden farm emphaticallyhas its place in manufacturing towns, in manyvillages, and in distinctly rural communities. Inthe country school, except for the work of theyoungest children, the school farm of thecity will undergo modifications in order toadapt it to the practical needs of a farmingcommunity. These modifications will be treatedunder the discussion
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