SCHOOL GARDEN WORE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CLEVELAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS SEASON u UF NINETEEN EIGHT Cleveland Public Schools Announcement of School Garden Work Season of 1908 The Board of Education Cleveland 1908 Flower Show Wade Park School The Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Cleveland Organization for 1908 MEMBERS Sarah E. Hyre Francis H. Samuel P. Orth Arthur C. Ludlow Haserot Walter D. Sayle John C. Canfield William G. Leopold OFFICERS Francis H. Haserot, President Charles Orr, Director of Schools William H. Elson, Superintendent of Schools Louise Klein Miller, Curator of School Gardens School Headquarters East 6th Street and Rockwell Ave. N. E. Pergola and Summer House Doan School Garden Rosedale School Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with fusing from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigri Alternates https://archive.org/details/clevelandpublicsOOclev Tree Planting— Watterson School Cleveland School Gardens School gardens and school gardening were first inaugurated in Cleveland public schools in 1904, when the work was conducted jointly by the Home Gardening Association and the Board of Education. In 1905 the Board of Education assumed entire charge of the school gardens. Eight were established in different parts of the city and Miss Louise Klein Miller was employed to supervise them. So successful was the work that on recommendation of the Director of Schools, the position of curator of school gardens was created and on October 16, 1905, Miss Miller was appointed by the Direc- tor to the position, the first one of its kind in the schools of the United States. The activities of school garden work of the Cleveland Public Schools as now organized include gardens for the following classes : First — For normal children, as at Doan, Rosedale and Warren Schools. Second — For defective children, as at Outhwaite, Fowler and Orchard Schools. Third — For delinquents, as at the Boys’ School. Fourth — A botanical garden at Rosedale School. Fifth — Lectures on gardening at various schools in the spring of each year, Sixth — Flower Shows held in September and October. Seventh — A kitchen garden in connection with the cooking schools at Oakland and Meyer. This marks a beginning of what is planned to be a regular feature of all schools where cooking is taught. Flower Drill Closing Exercises — Rosedale School Garden Children at Work Willard School Garden These various types of gardens illustrate the possibilities of the work in a city school system and it is hoped that when the system is fully developed each individual school will have its own garden. The work in school gardens is at present entirely voluntary and no part of the regular curriculum. It is in charge of the Curator of School Gardens, Miss Louise Klein Miller, who is appointed by the Director of Schools. The Curator also supervises the beautifying of school grounds, the planting of shrubbery, flowers and vines. This position was created in 1905 and is believed to have been the first of its kind in the United States. Previous to this appointment, similar work had been carried on at two or three schools under the patronage of the Home Gardening Association, which has done much to encourage the growing of flowers by the children of the city in their home gardens by the annual distribution of thousands of packages of seeds through the schools. Transplanting from Hot Beds to Cold Frames Warren School Garden The object of the work is of course to awaken the interest of the city child in nature and in gardening as a healthful occupation in life. The results so far obtained are sufficiently gratifying to en- courage its promoters to hope that it will become a regular part of the manual training work of the schools. After a summer’s training at a school garden, the children take great pride in laying out gardens of their own, much to the delight of interested parents. These gardens at home are, as a rule, well planned and planted, things of beauty and utility, yielding pleasure and profit to the household, demonstrating that the object for which the school gardens have been established is being realized. Some of the boys go to the country to work on farms during the summer. Weeding the Individual Beds Warren School Garden Limitations of space make it necessary, through intensive cul- ture and succession of crops, to impress upon the children the yield- ing capacity of a small plot of ground, thus encouraging them to utilize and develop to their highest possibility the waste space in their own home grounds. The Warren School garden is well located, in the school yard, and although comparatively few children can engage actively in practical gardening, all children have the benefit of seeing prepara- tion of soil, laying out of the garden, planting seeds, and harvesting crops. This is a Bohemian district, and the whole neighborhood has been influenced by work done by the children in the school garden. Tool House Rosedale School Garden Thorough organization is necessary for efficient work. The children in the sections are responsible to the section leaders ; the section leaders to the head gardener, the head gardener to the superintendent, and the superintendent to the Curator of school gar- dens. The garden contains forty beds each six by twelve feet, sur- rounded by a six foot flower border of perennials, producing a succes- sion of blooming, and enclosed by a hedge of Ligusteum cralifolium. The Sun Dial was added last year, the first prize for the best school garden of 1907. The Doan School garden is one hundred feet square, in a vacant lot adjoining the school grounds and loaned for the purpose. The wire netting fence serves as a support for vines. Inside the The Study of Corn Detroit School Garden fence is a herbaceous border of flowers. Six foot paths divide the garden into four sections, at the intersection of which there is a summer house and pergola extending over the paths to the flower border. The permanent planting of climbing roses, actinidia, akebia, quinata, Dutchman’s pipe, clematis, yuccas, lilies, iris, phlox, wall flowers, columbines, peonies, hollyhocks add much to the attractive- ness of the garden. The organization is the same as the Warren Garden, each sec- tion being responsible for one fourth of the garden. The Sun Dial was last year’s prize. The garden has been in operation since 1905. The Rosedale garden is believed to be the finest example of the possibilities of this department of school work in the United States. The plan of work at this garden combines the educative, aesthetic and utilitarian. The space is a “blind lot” which the Board of Education acquired when the Rosedale School site was purchased. The Botanical Garden, as now planned and partially completed, will illustrate the various orders of plants. The flower garden is conducted partly for its beauty and partly as a propagating or exchange garden for other schools. The school garden proper is conducted entirely by the children of the school. Planting was begun two years ago on practically a bed of sand. The rock gar- den, flower garden and vegetable garden are designed to suggest attractive arrangement of plants to secure succession of blooming, color scheme and harmonious effects of foliage. The botanical garden was started this spring, the planting be- ing done according to the Britton and Brown system of classifica- tion. When the beds were made ready, the soil requirements of each group of plants was considered and so far as possible, supplied. Sixty-six orders are now represented, and others will be added as time and space permit. Lilies, iris and other plants from Holland add color and interest. This garden will be of great value to students of nature, physical geography and botany. Making Garden Paths Rosedale School Garden DIRECTORY The School Headquarters, East Sixth and Rockwell Avenue, will be open from 8 a. m. to 7:30 p. m., where printed matter show- ing the work of the School Gardens may be obtained. The Home Gardening Association will have Headquarters at Goodrich House, corner St. Clair Avenue and East 6th Street, where photographs and printed matter showing the work of the Association may be found. These Headquarters will be open from 8 a. m. to 8:30 p. m. School Gardens may be reached as follows : East Side Outhwaite, East 55th Cross Town to Outhwaite, west to school, 1 block, Garden for defectives. Brownell, Euclid or Cedar cars to East 14th Street, one block south to school. Waring, East 31st Street, Payne Ave. cars to East 31st Street. School on corner. Doan School, reached by East 105th Street cross town or Superior Ave. cars to school. Rosedale School. Reached by Superior or Wade Park Avenue cars to East 115th St., one block to school on East 115th Street. Also kitchen garden at Oakland, one block East. Fowler School. Reached by Broadway cars to Fowler Avenue. Also garden for defectives. Giddings School. Reached by Cedar cars to East 71st Street, south to school. Warren School. Reached by Broadway cars to Dille Avenue. West Side Detroit School. Reached by Detroit cars, west to West 48th St. School Yard Improvement Hough School YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND A (gariirtt Party . . . at . . . UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY Saa^al? dar&ett THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1908 FROM THREE UNTIL SIX O’CLOCK LOUISE KLEIN MILLER, Curator of school Gardens ELIZABETH SPRAGUE Principal of Rosedale school GARPEXING CONTESTS Spading and Raking Bean Planting Transplanting Hoeing and Raking Making Hedge Cuttings IN EACH CONTEST First Prize . . 15 Bulbs Second Prize . . 10 Bulbs Awards will be made for efficiency and speed •T U T> Or E S MR. CHARLES ORR . Director of Schools MR. W. H. ELSON . . . Superintendent of Instruction MR. F. H. HASEROT . . President of the Board of Education MR. F. P. BACHMAN . . Principal Normal School MRS. SARAH E. HYRE . Member Board of Education MRS. ANDREW SQUIRE TICKETS TEN CENTS Proceeds to be used to defray ex- penses of a trip to the Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio, for the twenty most efficient workers in the Rosed ale School Garden r" L 3 0112 062172793 THE O. S. HUBBELL PRINTING COMPANY CLEVELAND. OHIO