The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-15
Flowers and Vegetables
Raised by School Child
rem of Pensacola.
School Improvement Asso-
citation Has Accomplished
Fine Work and is Entitled
to Great Credit-Exhibir
May be Seen To-day at
School No. l.

The halls and rooms of School No.
L were overrun with school children
and their parents yesterday afternoon
at the exhibit OF flowers and vega
tables planted and cultivated by the
school children of Pensacola under the
auspices and direction of the School
Improvement Association. That home
gardening by children can be made a
success was proved beyond doubt by
the splendid showing on the exhibit
stands. Vegetables of all kinds were
there, huge squash, big cUcumbers,
great tall corn stalks, beets of enor-
nous size. radishes, firm and solid,
too, but of such huge proportions that
they reSembled sugar beetS. Every
thing that it is possible to grow in
garden was shown at the exposition
of the choldren's work as gardeners.
But vegetables did not constitute all
tie exhibits by any means Almost
the entire length of the hail or the
first floor was filled with fioWe : uli-
I'll 1t looked green house trans DOr ted
into dry and unsymDAthetic school
building, and by their very presence
turned the building into a garden o.
flowers and the playground scores Il
children There was a stately cal1ak
lily that instantly attracted notice
and on down the line there appeared
all sorts of plants in blossom. or mere
ly the blossoms taken from the plant
There We're scores of fiOWer-diSnes I'll
ed with yellow nasturtiums, azelias.
hydrandias, ferns, and so many kinds
and species or flowers that one must
needs be a botanist to accurately set
them %.sth---------, ;..,,s,I3It
child effort at gardening These
school children of Pensacola showed
cOnclusively that Escambia county soil
will raise flowers and vegetables
The lesson contained in this exhibit,
as a practically demonstration OF
the agricultural possibilities of Escam-
bid county. is one that the grown
UPS" will do well to bear in mind.
CHILDREN'S INTENSE INTEREST.
Perhaps the chief feature of the
exhibit however was the intense in
trest the children expressed in the re-
suits of their efforts. They were
proud, very proud or their accom-
plishment. They were spurred on to
600 natured rivalry by the exhibits of
the different schools. as the exhibits
were arranged according to the school
district, and 50 placarded. School
No l, which has the largest enroll
ment of pupils and also the oldest
pupils OF the public schools of the
city. had the largest exhibit The
vegetable exhibit was held in the
library of the school building, and
School No. l. was placed on the west
side. 1t was topped by a tall corn
stalk, grown by GoIdine JacOby, AMI
on the right of the corn stalk. a bean
vine stood upright on its support
grown by Clyde IsOnhOur.
But all the schools were well rep
~ IT ID Nha l1T-
immense specimen. was grown by w
l.. Jones. Of School No 40 Master
Jones. so the card attached read, is
eight years old. and in Grade D
Then there was a basket of straw
berries grown by Aver Largue. of
School no. l. The largest cucumber
in the exhibit was grown by Regina
Davenport, Of Grade 8, Sec b, of
School No / There were others,
plants that attractd most attention on
many others. but these We're the
Planth that attracted most attention
on account Of their size and fine
growth
EXHIBIT OPEN TODAY.
Those who We're not fortunate
enough TO witness the exhibit yester-
day afternoon viii have an oppor-
tunity TO do so today. The exhibits
viii remain as they We're Yesterday
and the public is invited and urged
to visit the exhibition. The hours viii
be from 3 O'Clock TO in the morning
to ) o'clock in the afternoon in the
library of School No. l.
Every parent of school children in
Pensacola should visit this exhibit
There IS nothing that will so we'll IL
lustrate the great good that has
come from the endeavors Of the as
sOCiatiOn. and the work of The chill
dren- as the garden products
Nothing can be said that would
compliment too highly the sincere
and untiring efforts of the school
teachers in making home gardening
a success. To them il has been a
work of great pleasure IN a cause
that is without equal. They have
earnestly sought 10 create interest in
the children in home gardens
They have directed the planting and
the cultivation. They advised and
assisted in all way possible and to
them belongs the credit of the sue
cess
There We're 1900 packages of seed
distributed by the association. Three
hundred and twenty gardens were en-