Digital Collections: School Gardens Collection
Gardening as part of the school curriculum began in the United States in the early 1900s and is still thriving today. Magazine articles, education and extension bulletins were written to support the growing of food and the responsibility of gardening for children. At the advent of World War I, the US Bureau of Education with funding from the War Department created the United States School Garden Army (USSGA) to boost the concept as well as morale. The target audience was urban and suburban boys and girls, ages 9 through 15, and their teachers. This was one of the first attempts by the BOE to establish a curriculum nationally. It was also an attempt to help in the war effort by having the schools help grow food. To support this program a series of documents were written and distributed. Among these were the USSGA Manuals and Guides, and 17 School Home-Garden Circulars. The subjects covered growing vegetables from seed, growing flowers, building hotbeds and coldframes, organic matter and soil health, regional guides and others. As well as primary sources of gardening information from 1919, these guides are still applicable to the teachers, parents and gardeners of today. --Suzi Teghtmeyer, Agriculture, Botany and Forestry Librarian
Title:
A course in vegetable gardening for teachers
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, Dept. of Interior, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-gardening circular 2
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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A few good books and bulletins on nature study, school gardening, and elementary agriculture for common schools
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, 1903
Description:
Pubilshed as Circular (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) no. 52
Author:
Crosby, D. J.
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A German common school with a garden
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, 1899
Description:
Published as Circular (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) no. 42
Author:
Smith, C. B.
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A manual for school-supervised gardening for the northeastern states - Part 2: Flowers
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
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Published as United States school garden army manual no. 14
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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A manual of school-supervised gardening for the northeastern states - Part 1: Vegetables
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
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Published as United States school garden army manual no. 13
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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A manual of school-supervised gardening for the Western States
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1920
Description:
Published as United States school garden army manual no. 1
Author:
Stebbins, Cyril A. (Cyril Adelbert), b. 1878
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A suggestive schedule for the home-garden work in the south
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 10
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Agricultural education, including nature-study and school gardens
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1907
Description:
Published as Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Education) 1907, no. 2
Author:
Jewell, James Ralph
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Title:
Courses in school-supervised gardening for the northeastern states
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as United States school garden army manual no. 2
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Cycles of garden life and plant life : a series of projects in nature study for elementary schools
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : G.P.O., 1925
Description:
Published as Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Education) 1925, no. 15
Author:
Fox, Florence C., 1861-1933
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Title:
Fall manual of the United States School Garden Army
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1918
Description:
Pubished as United States School Garden Army manual no. 4
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Flower growing for school children in the elementary grades
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1917
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular no. 14
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Forty lessons in gardening for the northeastern states
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as United States school garden army manual no. 10
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Garden manual for the southwestern region
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
United States school garden army manual no. 9
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Garden projects in seed planting
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home garden circular no. 13
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Home gardening for city children of the fifth, sixth, and seventh grades
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as United States school garden army manual no. 15
Author:
Gowans, Ethel
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Title:
Home gardening for town children
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States School Garden Army, Dept. of the Interior, 1919
Description:
Published as School garden army leaflet no. 1, United States School Garden Army manual no. 3
Author:
Claxton, P. P. (Philander Priestly), 1862-1957
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Title:
Home gardening for town children
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1917
Description:
Published as School home garden circular no. 16
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Hotbeds and coldframes for home gardens
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 5
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
How to make garden soil more productive
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 7
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Instructions for school supervised home gardens
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1915
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 1
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Lessons in gardening for southwestern region
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as United States school garden army manual no. 11
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Lessons in gardening for the central states region
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Publiished as Garden manual no. 2
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Lessons in gardening for the central states region
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as Garden manual no. 1
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Lessons in school-supervised gardening for the Southeastern States : vegetables
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as Garden manual, United States School Garden Army manual no. 12
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
List of publications for the use of school home-garden teachers
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 11
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Nature study and gardening for rural schools
Publisher:
Tuskegee Institute, Ala. : Experiment Station, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 1910
Description:
Published as Bulletin (Tuskegee Institute. Experiment Station) no. 18
Author:
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943; Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Experiment Station
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Title:
Nature's garden for victory and peace
Publisher:
[Tuskegee] : Tuskegee Institute, 1942
Description:
Published as Bulletin (Tuskegee Institute. Agricultural Research Experiment Station) no. 43
Author:
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
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Title:
Nature-study and gardening
Publisher:
Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Publishing Co., 1923
Description:
Published in Nature-study review 19(5), p. 194-198
Author:
Vinal, William Gould, 1881-1973
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Title:
Organic matter for the home gardens
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1915
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 4
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Part played by the leaf in the production of a crop
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1915
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 9
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Part played by the root in the production of a crop
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1917
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular no. 15
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Planting the garden
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 8
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Possibilities for school-directed home gardening in Atlanta, Georgia
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1917
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular no. 17
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
Raising vegetable plants from seed
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1916
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 6
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
School garden in the course of study
Publisher:
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911
Description:
Published as Circular (California Agricultural Experiment Station) no. 62
Author:
Babcock, E. B. (Ernest Brown), 1877-1954; Stebbins, Cyril A. (Cyril Adelbert), b. 1878
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Title:
School gardens
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1899
Description:
Published in Education report, 1898-99, p. 1067-1084
Author:
Gang, E.
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Title:
School gardens : a report upon some cooperative work with the normal schools of Washington, with notes on school-garden methods followed in other American
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1905
Description:
Published as Bulletin (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) no. 160
Author:
Galloway, B. T.
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Title:
School home garden results of 1916
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1917
Description:
Published as School home garden circular no. 12
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
School supervised gardening in New Hampshire
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States School Garden Army, Dept. of the Interior, 1919
Description:
Published as School Garden Army leaflet 93, United States School Garden Army manual no. 6
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
Some types of children's garden work
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1912
Description:
Published as Bulletin (United States. Office of Experiment Stations) 252
Author:
Sipe, Susan Bender
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Title:
Suggestions for garden work in California schools
Publisher:
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1909
Description:
Published as Circular (California Agricultural Experiment Station) no. 46
Author:
Babcock, E. B. (Ernest Brown), 1877-1954
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Title:
The need for gardening as an intermediate grade subject in city schools
Publisher:
Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Publishing Co., 1923
Description:
Published in Nature-study review 19(2), p. 79-82
Author:
Childs, Breta W.
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Title:
The spring manual of the United States School Garden Army
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as United States School Garden Army manual no. 5
Author:
United States. School Garden Army
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Title:
The winter vegetable garden
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Bureau of Education, 1915
Description:
Published as School home-garden circular 3
Author:
United States. Bureau of Education
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Title:
United States School Garden Army
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1919
Description:
Published as Bulletin (United States. Bureau of Education) 1919, no. 26
Author:
Francis, J. H.
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