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with actual problems. Such an area will be 

 an essential part of school equipment. It 

 will be an additional room or laboratory, 

 not maintained primarily to teach the children 

 gardening but to be utilized for educational 

 purposes. 



The school-garden will do much to place the 

 school in proper relation to its natural problems 

 and will be an intermediate stage between the 

 schoolhouse and the larger environment of the 

 neighborhood. 



Various kinds of extension gardening will 

 soon be important agencies in civic and educa- 

 tional work : they will furnish occupation for 

 the unemployed; utilize waste lands; afford 

 health-giving employment at hospitals; add 

 interest to parks ; augment the beauty of 

 the city or town ; encourage thrift and tidi- 

 ness in homegrounds ; increase the efficiency 

 of schools. 



The last category is the one that most inter- 

 ests us at this moment ; therefore I will state 

 some of the specific ways in which the school- 

 garden may be expected to forward school 



