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Editorial 



While editing the material for this garden number the thought 

 came to us "How little information there is in this ntmiber on 

 the growing of turnips, cabbages, geraniums, roses, etc.!" And 

 then the answers came "But there is much in it on how to grow 

 children and that is the crop, as teachers, we are interested in." 

 For facts on vegetable and flower crops The Nature-Study 

 Review refers you to and urges you to use freely, the manuals 

 issued without charge by the Bureau of Education, Washington, 

 D. C, viz. : A Manual of School Supervised Gardens of the North- 

 eastern States. Part I Vegetables, Part II Flowers. When 

 sending for these ask for copies of the record sheet and certificates 

 of work. You may not have time to organize a company of the 

 United States School Garden Army but a certificate for work done 

 attested by the Bureau of Education is a valuable incentive. If 

 you are a teacher in the far West send to the University of Cali- 

 fornia for Outlines of Courses of Instruction in Agricultural 

 Nature-Study and Outline Studies on School Gardens, Home 

 Gardens and Vegetable Growing Projects. 



Now, wherein have we shown you how to grow the child crop? 

 Read and re-read the first article to find how a child acquires self 

 control; control of others which can only come through self 

 control; ability to follow directions; independence of work and 

 yet a feeling of responsibility to the entire community, in an 

 efficiently managed garden. 



Study the Garden Health Drive for the use of the imagination 

 in teaching a difficult subject. We have seen this play most 

 successfully given when the final production was the only time all 

 of the actors had been together. 



As one reads the reports of supervisors from California to Massa- 

 chusetts he is impressed with the earnestness of those who are 

 truly sowing seeds of character and while they may never reap the 

 crop they are sowing, their work will live long after them. 



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