AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



includes in its membership both individuals and 

 associations that are interested in promoting 

 home and school gardens. It includes in its board 

 of governors such people as Mr. Bolton Hall, Pres. 

 Haines of the Home Gardening Association, Cleve- 

 land; Mr. Samuel Pels, Dr. C. P. Hodge, Miss Louise 

 Klein Miller, Mrs. L. L. Wilson, of the Philadel- 

 phia Normal School; Dr. Crapsey, of Rochester, 

 and Mr. R. P. Powell, of the Buffalo Vacant Lot 

 Association. 



Dr. C. P. Hodge, Clark University. 



**The same thinking, willing, doing, the same 

 patience that enter into care of the plant or the 

 fledgling bird will later enter into the care of 

 home and children."— Speech at Session of Con- 

 ference on Prevention of Infant Mortality, New 

 Haven, Nov. ii, 1909. 



"A school garden can also supply ethical culture 

 where it is most needed." — ''Nature Study and 

 Life," page 130. 



P. A. Howes, Principal of Macdonald Consoli- 

 dated School, Guelph, and Director of the 

 first Macdonald School Garden at Bowesville, 

 Ontario. 

 " I am ready to put myself on record as saying 

 that the school garden has relieved much of the 

 drudgery of the school work to which I was always 

 accustomed. This year we had our school garden 



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