. Among School Gardens . chool, at a nominalsalary, as supervisor of nature study and schoolgardens in the District of Columbia. A course innature study has been prepared defining the workfrom grade to grade and so systematized thateach child has a required amount of work in theschool garden just as he has in arithmetic, reading,etc. Washington has four large school gardenson vacant lots, and for school-ground decorationMiss Sipe counts 100 white and 50 colored schoolsin all but 3 of which the children have some partin the planting and care. Moreover, as empha-sizing the value of her work, the
. Among School Gardens . chool, at a nominalsalary, as supervisor of nature study and schoolgardens in the District of Columbia. A course innature study has been prepared defining the workfrom grade to grade and so systematized thateach child has a required amount of work in theschool garden just as he has in arithmetic, reading,etc. Washington has four large school gardenson vacant lots, and for school-ground decorationMiss Sipe counts 100 white and 50 colored schoolsin all but 3 of which the children have some partin the planting and care. Moreover, as empha-sizing the value of her work, the United StatesDepartment of Agriculture has made her a colla-borator in the Bureau of Plant Industry and fur- 30 THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOL GARDEN nished her with a greenhouse for the instruc-tion of normal students in school garden teach-ing. These pupils are required to conduct homegardens under supervision. The Bureau of PlantIndustry, together with the Office of Experi-ment Stations, works with the schools, furnish-. CoRNER OF Ludlow Schoolyard, Washington, D. C. ing the supervisor with plants, seeds and othermaterial. Nor does the United States government stophere in its furtherance of the movement. It haspublished a large number of bulletins on schoolgardens and allied topics which may be had byapplication to the Secretary of Agriculture. The 31 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS Bureau of Plant Industry furnishes a large amountof seeds in answer to school requests, whichlatter have steadily increased in number since1904, and now come from every state in theUnion, mounting into the thousands.* Theseseeds are put up in four sets; namely, flowers,vegetables, decorative and economic. Each ofthe first two sets contains five packets of differ-ent kinds of seed. The decorative set containsten and the economic eighteen packets, withenough of each kind to plant a square rod ofground. Three of the most important FarmersBulletins are No. 195, Annual Flowering Plants;No. 218, The School Garden;
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