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and it has been the pleasantest year of my school 

 work. I would never again pass a summer with- 

 out a school garden. The child's mind gets growth 

 out of it because it is something it can understand. 

 Not only does the School Garden serve well as a 

 means of educating and training the child, but it 

 supplies a class of knowledge that is highly useful 

 and cultivates a taste for an honorable and re- 

 munerative vocation." — ^Letter. 



James Ralph Jewell, Author of "Agricultural 

 Education including Nature Study and School 

 Gardens." 



"The importance of school gardens is indicated 

 by the impetus given them from so many sides, 

 by the fact that they are not in any way the fad 

 of some one class of people, but that they are used 

 — and successfully used— by organizations with 

 widely different purposes to further their own aims 

 and to solve the problems of special interest to 

 them." (Page 37.) 



''The district nurses of some of our American 

 cities report much better health among children 

 at work in school gardens than before such work 

 was undertaken — a thing of no inconsiderable im- 

 portance to us as a people." (Page 121.) 



"College settlements in all the cities have lent 

 their aid, and everywhere local agricultural and 

 horticultural societies have given at least moral 

 support. The committee of five of the National 

 Educational Council has attested to the value of a 



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