APPENDIX B 



ADULT TESTIMONY 



Mrs. Edith Goodyear Alger. 



*'In a school garden properly conducted chil- 

 dren become so deeply interested in accomplishing 

 a certain, definite, near and understandable re- 

 sult — the raising of flowers and vegetables — that 

 they learn to work hard without being conscious 

 of effort. This is a matter of the highest im- 

 portance in educating children." — Vermont Cir- 

 culars of Educational Information, No. Xlll. 



The American Civic Association has ''the firm 

 conviction that there is no more potent influence 

 for better civic conditions in America than the 

 educated youth, in whom there is developed this 

 critical discernment of beauty and excellence in 

 nature and art, an abiding love for these things, 

 and a feeling of personal responsibility for better 

 civic conditions. Furthermore, its members are 

 firmly convinced that there is no more efficient 

 agency for the attainment of those high ideals 

 in education than school garden work, properly 

 correlated with other school work." jj^ -^ - 



Dr. W. A. Baldwin, President Normal School, 

 Hyannis, Mass. 

 " I know of no form of work which has thus far 

 been introduced into our schools that is helping 



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