. Among School Gardens . DeWitt Clinton Park School Garden, New York City by Mrs. Henry Parsons. It has given inspira-tion to many people to start other gardens uponsimilar lines. Its work was exhibited on a smallscale at both the St. Louis and Jamestown Ex-positions. On little 4x8 foot plots by a systemof two plantings, one in May and one in July, ittakes some thousand children off the city streets,furnishes nature study material to schools and vis- 28. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN iting classes, and gives to a number of crippledchildren brought there each week, some happyhours working
. Among School Gardens . DeWitt Clinton Park School Garden, New York City by Mrs. Henry Parsons. It has given inspira-tion to many people to start other gardens uponsimilar lines. Its work was exhibited on a smallscale at both the St. Louis and Jamestown Ex-positions. On little 4x8 foot plots by a systemof two plantings, one in May and one in July, ittakes some thousand children off the city streets,furnishes nature study material to schools and vis- 28. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN iting classes, and gives to a number of crippledchildren brought there each week, some happyhours working over their little farms, or superin-tending such work when it must be done by strongerarms. The School Farm, with its flowers, its regu-lar lines of vegetables, its grains and observationplots, presents an almost park-like appearance tothe neighborhood. The earlier work of Philadelphia with its con-stantly increasing number of school gardens, thework in Washington, D. C, and the successfulFairview Garden School of Yonkers, New York,should be mentioned among the pioneers. Philadelphia stands out today as the city whoseboard of education most fully recognizes, fromthe pedagogical and educational standpoint, thevalue of the school garden. It appoints a su-pervisor of school gardens (Miss Stella Nathan);incorporates the work into its school system in cer-tain grades, and maintains the gardens throughoutthe growing season. The teaching in the gardens,
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