New York Botanical Garden

Courses in gardening at the
Botanical Garden

COURSES IN GARDENING

AT

THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN

IN CO-OPERATION WITH

THE INTERNATIONAL
CHILDREN’S SCHOOL FARM LEAGUE

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COURSES OF INSTRUCTION

I. Simple Home Garden Courses for those desiring to conduct
their own gardens.

Mondays in April, 2.30 P.M.

Tuesdays in May, 4.30 P.M.

Tuesdays in June, 4.30 P.M.

The fee for each course will be five dollars, which will include
necessary supplies and materials.

TALKS.
Soil and preparation.
Cultivation and weed control.
What and how to plant. Transplanting. Food values.
Relation of sunlight, air, and water to the garden.

GARDEN PRACTICE, AND OBSERVATION.
Planting, transplanting, thinning, spading, raking, hoeing,
cultivating, weeding.
To be repeated, as needed, monthly, hours to be arranged.

Il. Training Courses for Teachers for School Gardens

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
May 14th to June 22nd, 1917, from 2.30 to 5.30 P.M. Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays,’ Thursdays and Fridays July 9th to
Algust 7th, 1967, from’ 6:30 A:M. to 12.30 P:M.

' This course will show the pedagogical value of the school
garden, and how it may fit into the curriculum without disturbing
it:

How, by proper planning, a teacher may take a full class into
the garden and do effective work in the ordinary class period.

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How the garden will furnish material of educational value, alive
with interest, which will aid and inspire the regular classroom
studies of reading, writing, arithmetic, language, drawing,
geography, and history.

Instruction will be given, by lectures, practice work, and
reading, in those subjects needed by teachers in school garden
work, and connected classroom experiments.

Laboratory and garden tools will be supplied without charge.

The fee for each course will be twenty-five dollars, which will
include necessary materials and supplies.

A certificate will be awarded by The New York Botanical
Garden to students satisfactorily completing the course.

LECTURES. 30 one-hour periods.

Introduction. The school garden an educational laboratory,
planned for the child’s development. The teacher’s atti-
tude.

Correlation. Examples of how to use the garden problems in
classroom work.

Planning the School Garden. The ground plan and planting
scheme.

Soil and fertility. Fertilizers and manures.

Seeds. Selection. Germinating. Planting. Transplanting.
Thinning. Proper spacing.

Relation of water, air, sunlight to the garden.

Insects and animals of the garden.

Hygiene and physical culture lessons drawn from the garden
work and study, to be applied by the teacher in guiding the
child at work, and in talks in the classroom.

Studies of growing plants. Lessons in observation.

Short histories of several vegetables. - Uses.

Elementary forestry and soil conservation.

GARDEN PRACTICE. 30 one-hour periods.
Spading, raking, hoeing, cultivating, planting, thinning, trans-
planting, weeding. Weed and insect studies. Harvesting
and exhibit preparation. General and special observation.

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LABORATORY AND SHOP PRACTICE. 30 hours.

Cultivating stick, garden line and knots, plot stake, marking
board, hand carrier, root and insect cages, flat or window
box, butterfly net, poison jar, spreading board, map, stencils,
and studies and experiments with student-made apparatus.

III. Special or Partial Courses in gardening may be arranged
if applications are sufficiently numerous.

IV. Autumn Course.

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays,
September 1oth to October 26th, from 4 to 5.30 P.M. The

* fee for this course will be twenty dollars, which will include
necessary supplies and materials.

LECTURES.

Seeds, weeds, composting, fertilizers, fall tillage, cover crops.
Food values.

GARDEN PRACTICE.
Harvesting of seeds, of plants and of root crops. Fall
fertilizing and spading. Compost pits and their contents.
Fall planting. Plant protection for the winter.

LABORATORY.

Experiments and shop work.

V. Greenhouse Courses will be organized for November and
December, 1917, and for January and February, 1918, to
include lectures, greenhouse bench work, propagating,
potting, seed testing, hot-bed and mold-frame practice.

All correspondence relative to these courses should be addressed
to
HENRY GRISCOM PARSONS,
Supervisor of Gardening Instruction,

Mansion, New York Botanical Garden,
Bronx Park.

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Access to the School Garden and to the Mansion is most con-
venient from the new Pelham Parkway Station of the White
Plains Road extension of the Subway, walking west on the Bronx
and Pelham Parkway and north on either the Bronx Boulevard
or on paths which lead to the Mansion. Access can also be had
by a somewhat longer walk from the terminal (Botanical Garden
or Bronx Park) station of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway,
walking east through the Flower Gardens and Hemlock Forest
to the Mansion. The Southern Boulevard trolley line reaches
the southwestern corner of the Botanical Garden at the junction
of Southern Boulevard and Pelham Avenue, from which point
access to the Mansion and School Garden can be had by walking
east on Pelham Avenue and north to the Mansion.

N. L. Britton,
Director-in-Chief.

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