CIVIC GARDENING


THIS
PLEAS-
ANT
LITTLE
GARDEN
WITH
ITS
GRASS,
SHRUBS
AND
FLOW-
ERS IS
IN
HAPPY
CON-
TRAST
TO THE
VIEW
SHOWN
BELOW.


flowers that will stand the sun, but thousands of successful boxes
testify each year that good results can be obtained.
   Three years ago one of the schools put out boxes in all its windows,
since then twelve other schools have followed this excellent example,
and last year the Evening Sun offered a school prize. The boxes are
usually made in the Manual Training Department, and the children
bring seeds and plants. In a city where school playgrounds are
pitiably small and where school gardens are in many cases impossible,
the window-boxes are a source of untold pleasure and real profit to
the children.
   This year the Committee co perated with other agencies to secure
the appointment of a City Forester, who has taken up the work of
preserving the trees now growing, and promoted the planting of
others. This work is facilitated in some degree by the extensive


A FOR-
LORN AND
BARREN
BACK-
YARD
ON A
BALTI-
MORE
STREET
WHICH
WAS
TURNED
INTO THE
ATTRACT-
IVE SPOT
ILLUS-
TRATED
AT THE
TOP OF
THE PAGE.


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