New-York tribune., 1902-08-25
MODERN SCHOOL GARDENS
CHILDREN LIKE TO LEARN THROUGH THIS
uEaNs-1NTEREsT GROWS YEARLY

c1z1rnREN LIKE TO LEARN THROUGH THIS
uraNs-1NTEREsT GROWS YEARLY
Modern school gardens began to be pushed about
9 -. .eo in Austria and Sweden ac-
- - e. . recent article on the subject oy
49, crosby of the United States Department
~ Agriculture In The Independent
MORO than thirteen hundred school gardens ih S
den and more than eighteen thousaHu ~, - -
IN some Of the Austrian provinces no scnooi os
r,+bou+ its garden. In Belgium a garden OF a.
least 3s1b square rods is REQUIRED oy Ia" ioI 80
school In Switzerland 81 at attention. ms
maid m school gardens. and IN france INC
- .be ono hundred normal schools receive tr'ilits
O. q ..Io,,1+u-e and agriculture part or tneir
course In 1897 Russia contained eight thousalo
school gardens. many OF them conUd4i'i"6
or bees and skworm hatcherles- .,,
- ,,a-tca school gardens were unknown untli
-, " -. as introduced by the Massachusetts,
1Jr,tc,,ItureI Society in 1890 Since then the So
ciety has given three annual prizes Tor tne oese
ucbool gardens offered for Inspection ana 'le III 81
,-a hoo &, each case been taken by the George
putnam, School Medtord. Mass. has three schooi
gardens and at Framinsham and Hyahhs tnei'
are gardens In connection with State Normal prac-
,ica schools Wenham. Mass. has nve schooi gar
dens.
similar gardens have been started IN bath' Me.
Trenton ST Louis. Louisville and Roches'er'
co.'s tho writer In Rochester four or nVe
schools have undertaken school grouno I'M
movement and in spite OF many discourase"ieii'S
have accomplished noteworthy results Iney nave
baAn aided and In part directed by the nature
-, h,,-ao,, of Cornell University. which Is also
doing much in other parts OF the State FOR the I'M
movement of educational methods-
..rr cleveland a movement similar to those al
o.5,, dascribed and yet not the same. was sue
cessfy inaugurated three years ago oy lhe fioiiie
carda,ine Association this instance however
home gardens-the Improvement OF nome srouhuS-
was made the leading feature. and the Improvements
of school grounds was at first Incidental Al pres
tJ,a ride NJ a
sociation comprises both these features ana also
kitchen garden work for boys at the Goodrich
House farm Some idea of the popularity ano
growth OF the movement can be obtained oy COM
Darins the number of penny packages of seeds sold
to children last year and the year before In ~"
over AZ 500 such packages sold and in lsOl the
number was over 11.OO0. This year more seeus
have been sold than last year. Notwithstanding the
fact that many of the children raised their own
seed
.,rhe Omaha Neb.. city schools are just entering
upon the school garden movement Garden work
begins in the kndeTgarten aHd EXTENDS tnrGus M Ra
flowers and vegetables AT central farh the pupi,S
gaged to care for them all summer. The vegetd-
bles are TO be sold and the pToGeeGS usgG M PO
n j. has also undertaken the Work TINS year anu
Is IN ms MOST Of the schools mentioned thus far the
in gaFden w05f Of t Srdens in
which each 3 pupil M has Pas IN 9 m couny anI One
there are put rev ffoTts in this direction was
that inaugurated by company In Dayton ONO
For a number of years this company has been en-
couraging its employees to plant and otherwise i'm
Dr0ve their home grounds and about threc years
ago the president of the company offered hve prizes
aegregating $50 for the best vegetable gardens the
c6Stesr To he open TO not more than forty boys
raneine in age from eight 10 fifteen years. The
experiment succeeded. and this year over seventy
boys are propretors of small gardens
lone other school garden wish to mention that
of The Hartford Comm School of Horticulture
Last year for the first time thirty-four boys from
n CITY sent once a week 70 the
School Of Horticulture for garden work. Each had
a Mat to work and he either cared for II through
ont tbe season or he relinquished all claim TO 1t
and the plat was given to one of the many boys on
tbs waiting list The experiment was such great
snccaes thst this year the School of tc'Ilture
has nTovided school gardens for 163 pupils. in
Guiding a class OF about fifteen girls, who come
out for work on Saturday afternoons"