AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS' 



raphy, textiles, food and clothing have surprising 

 relations to a garden which an occasional apt 

 reference or illustration can bring out. More and 

 more it is being made the partner of physical 

 geography. In every school it should be the twin 

 of nature study and usually the companion of 

 manual training. It is easy to show how much 

 we owe to the husbandman; how the life of the 

 whole round world is inter-dependent, or in a child's 

 phraseology, "hangs together"; how tilling of the 

 soil is a fundamental necessity. No child who has 

 ever loved a garden will despise the farmer, for he 

 has learned by experience to respect manual labor; 

 and that brains and hands must work together to 

 bring good crops. 



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