APPENDICES 



"Our Yonkers garden has convinced me that it 

 is a blessing to the child and to society, and that 

 it contains many elements of educational, social 

 and economic value." — Letter. 



Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, Chicago University. 

 Founder of the first school garden in Illinois 

 at the Charleston State Normal School. 

 "One of the most important relations that the 

 garden bears to natural history work in general 

 exists in the opportunity it presents for organizing 

 a considerable part of the materials of natural 

 history. . . . It offers, furthermore, an intro- 

 duction to nature, first through economic plants, 

 the ones best known and most closely associated 

 with the home and social life." — The Normal 

 School Bulletin, Jan., 1908. 



Charles L. Coon, Superintendent of Education, 

 North Carolina. 

 "The garden is necessary because it furnishes a 

 combination of hand work and book work that pro- 

 motes thinking and observation." — "The School 

 Garden." (Leaflet.) 



R. H. Cowley, author of Macdonald School 



Gardens. 



"Through the work of the school garden the 



pupil's powers of observation are turned into the 



orderly channels of cause and effect. His ever 



widening outlook toward the objects and forces of 



nature frees his mind from the power of sensory 



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