. Among School Gardens . cost of the garden sheds (in Canada) is about $ popular plan is one 10 x 20 feet with an extension on one side about5 feet wide, and finished as a greenhouse. This obviates the necessityof having special hot-beds. The garden tools are disposed along thewalls of the shed in places numbered to accord with the numberingof the pupils plots. Along one side of each shed is a bench or tableof plain boards, about 18 inches wide, running close to the wall,along which are several small windows giving abundant light topupils engaged in practical work.—Cowley, R. H.: The Macdo
. Among School Gardens . cost of the garden sheds (in Canada) is about $ popular plan is one 10 x 20 feet with an extension on one side about5 feet wide, and finished as a greenhouse. This obviates the necessityof having special hot-beds. The garden tools are disposed along thewalls of the shed in places numbered to accord with the numberingof the pupils plots. Along one side of each shed is a bench or tableof plain boards, about 18 inches wide, running close to the wall,along which are several small windows giving abundant light topupils engaged in practical work.—Cowley, R. H.: The MacdonaldSchool Gardens. 128 COST OF EQUIPMENT Moreover, a large piano box costing | can bemade weatherproof and serviceable for the keepingof tools. A $25 tent can be made to take theplace of the more costly portable house. Ashelter from the hot sunshine may be a canopyof quickly growing vines.* If a tent is used, itmust have a fly or it will be worse than a gridironin hot weather, and give little protection in Section of Wooden Pergola One can, perhaps, get along without a watersupply, but sometimes a 4-inch hydrant and hoseis almost a necessity. Then again, in many placesthe water supply is furnished. Tools can be les-sened in number by giving different groups ofchildren one kind of tool to use at a time, and ex- * Posts driven into the ground and connected by wires to supportquick growing vines will form the sides of a shelter that might havea double canvas and rainproof top. 129 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS changing for different ones as their need may also be some improvised enjoy making things for real use. Ifsome of the suggested substitutes seem inadequate,try them. Recall how much more enjoyment andbenefit there is in the homemade toy or improvisedtool provided it does its work well. Moreover,in several well known cases school gardens thatnearly failed the first year, when too much ofthe preparatory work was done for the childre
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