XVI INTRODUCTION 



mental, moral and physical development 

 than those not having gardens. The 

 school garden tends to develop the best 

 traits in the children, and to create in 

 them a love for the beautiful. It gives 

 play to all their motor activities, 

 and shows that results follow causes, 

 and is one of the best methods of curing 

 them of stealing. They begin to under- 

 stand something of ownership and respon- 

 sibility, and look more kindly at their 

 neighbor's products, and, as they do not 

 wish to lose their own, that for which 

 they have worked, the value of the 

 product of another is more forcibly 

 demonstrated to them. The school 

 garden can be made especially valuable 

 to girls, particularly those in the city, as 

 they do not have the same liberties of 

 the street as have boys, and are in the 

 open air and sunshine all too little for 

 good, strong physical development. 



