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with their studies when these are found to be both profitable 

 and enjoyable. 



The moral importance of the school garden, it properly 

 expanded and developed, is also a fundamental. A vacation 

 season without employment for either mind or body, without the 

 supervision of teachers or parents, may easily undo the work 

 of the year in moral training. Prevention is better than vain 

 attempts at the cure of society's evil. The wholesome continu- 

 ance of inspiring, enjoyable, and profitable living for twelve 

 months in tke year is the true antidote to progressive vice and 

 criminality. The weakness or limitation of the school garden 

 plan in its failure to provide for the vacation period, is every- 



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where admitted. With the idea rounded out to include the 

 whole year, the largest measure of usefulness will be achieved 

 through it. 



The operation of school gardens in the vast and crowded 

 cities of Chicago and New York — where one might least ex- 

 pect to find them, yet where the need seems to be greatest — is 

 a most notable event in recent educational history. 



After studying the social conditions in New York and Chi- 



