VI 



The Growing of Plants by Children — the 

 School-Garden 



ACTUALLY to grow a plant is to come 

 into intimate contact with a specific bit of 

 nature. The numbers of plants that we grow, 

 and also the kinds of them, increase with every 

 generation. The intensity of our plant-grow- 

 ing, as well as the increasing care for animals, 

 is coming to be a measure of our interest in the 

 world about us. 



Not only has the cultivation of plants itself 

 increased our contact with plants and with 

 nature, but, in connection with the growth of 

 the spirit of art, of sport, and of suburbanism, 

 it has taken us afield and has impelled us to 

 know things as they are and as they grow. 

 The modern popularization of plant-knowledge 

 is probably due more to these agencies than to 

 the progress of botany. 



There are many practical applications to the 

 lives of children and to the home that may be 



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