. Among School Gardens . Macdonald Institute, Guelph, School Gardens, July, iqoq be emphasized and the gardens become a factor inan educational movement, Dr. Robertson broughtthem under the Department of Education in eachprovince rather than under the Department ofAgriculture. Twenty-one school gardens werestarted and were maintained free of cost to eitherpupils or the public for three years. The variousprovinces passed Orders in Council incorporating i6 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN them into their educational systems, thus placingthe school gardens of Canada on a broader educa-tional ba
. Among School Gardens . Macdonald Institute, Guelph, School Gardens, July, iqoq be emphasized and the gardens become a factor inan educational movement, Dr. Robertson broughtthem under the Department of Education in eachprovince rather than under the Department ofAgriculture. Twenty-one school gardens werestarted and were maintained free of cost to eitherpupils or the public for three years. The variousprovinces passed Orders in Council incorporating i6 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN them into their educational systems, thus placingthe school gardens of Canada on a broader educa-tional basis than those of any other state orcountry. 3i63^»*^»^»^)^4*f;«^ir4«:^»e3KJ^^. BowEsviLLE School Grounds, Canada The Macdonald school gardens not only havea recognized place in the provincial systems ofeducation, but they are attached to the ordinaryrural schools, owned by the school corporation, 17 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS and conducted under the authority of the schooltrustees and with the express approval of the ratepayers. The work of the garden is recognizedas a legitimate part of the school program and itis already interwoven with a considerable part ofthe other studies. The garden is becoming theouter classroom of the school, and its plots are itsblackboards. The garden is not an innovation, oran excrescence, or an addendum, or a is a happy field of expression, an organic partof the school in which the boys and girls workamong growing things and grow themselves inbody and mind and spiritual outlook.* At the beginning of the movement, six teachersof experience in the rural schools were selected andsent, at the expense of the Macdonald fund, forspe
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