AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



course, has no use for farming on tiny beds that 

 to city children seem veritable plantations. 

 Such baby farming and such instruction in the 

 first use of tools as would be welcome in the city 

 would be ridiculous in the country. Possibly 

 a farmer's boy hates the whole business of farm- 



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ing and longs for the day when he can get 

 away from it and enjoy life more as he fancies his 

 city cousins do. His father, perhaps, has no use for 

 the new school frills, and does not want interference 

 or intrusion on his home ground. But it may be 

 feasible to introduce school gardening by suggest- 

 ing that one boy or group of boys should conduct 



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