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working out from the campus gardens to the larger field of the 

 whole state our vision is this, (1) through a traveling instruc- 

 tor and supervisor to organize California Junior Gardening 

 Clubs until at least 3,000 children are enrolled in a great Univer- 

 sity class, (2) to work out a co-operative marketing plan where- 

 by local merchants will handle each club's output, (3) to organize 

 banks in each school that the economic pull may give momentum 

 to the work, (4) to interest the gardeners in setting aside a 

 portion of their vegetables and flowers for the poor of their 

 vicinity at Thanksgiving time, (5) to hold annual state vege- 

 table dinners in Berkeley with Gardening delegates in attend- 

 ance. (6) and lastly a big class of children growing with their 

 plants and looking toward the University and the country at 

 least twice a month. 



To make the vision real we shall have Mr. Morse of the 

 Morse Seed Company giving his support, Mr. Bohannan, editor 

 of the Town & Country Journal, opening a medium through 

 w^hich the parents may be reached, Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction, Mr. Hyatt, pointing the way to the teachers. And 

 all in all the immense potentiality of the children will be in- 

 creased and they will constitute a driving power for good in 

 this state which cannot be denied. 



The Civic Aspect of School Gardens 



Louise Klein Miller. 

 Curator of School Gardens, Cleveland. 



The civic problem for every community to solve, is to 

 provide for its various gardens of society those living conditions 

 which will minister to their highest physical, mental, moral and 

 spiritual well being. 



The thinking men and women of today are demanding the 

 elimination of those forces which tend to the deterioration and 

 degradation of society, substituting those elements which will 

 elevate each member of the community into a higher, clearer, 

 more wholesome atmosphere. 



