Article August 14, 1902 Issue

School Gardens

The following excerpts are taken from a recent article in The Outlook, by Dick J. Crosby of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

A school garden may be defined as a garden that performs some educational function in the school or schools with which it is connected. Gardens of this nature are found in all the more progressive countries of Europe, and are coming to be a feature in connection with some of our American schools.

School gardens are mostly modern institutions. No concerted movement for their establishment dates back more than thirty-five years. Aside from Germany, where two or three states gave encouragement to the establishment of school gardens over eighty years ago, Austria and Sweden were leaders in the movement and were practically contemporaneous in giving official encouragement to it.

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