AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



and constancy; reveals executive ability in those 

 who superintend; and arouses a desire to improve 

 the home grounds/'^Home Gardening Associa- 

 tion Report, 1906, page 9. 



Dr. James W. Robertson, President of Mac- 

 donald College, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, 

 Quebec, Canada. 

 ''When a child does anything with its own 

 hands, such as planting a seed, pulling up a plant, 

 making examination of the changes which have 

 taken place during its growth, making a drawing 

 of it, mounting it and putting its name on it, he 

 receives impressions by the sense of touch, he 

 sees, he hears the noise of the movements he makes, 

 and he smells the soil and the part of the plant 

 with which he is dealing. Those impressions are 

 definite and lasting; they add to the sum of sen- 

 suous knowledge; they prepare for the perception 

 of logical knowledge, in a common sense way." — 

 "Macdonald Fund for Manual Training and the 

 Improvement of Rural Schools," page 43. 



** Since engaging in the work my boys and girls 

 have been first in all examinations, competing 

 with children from other schools, including city 

 schools. The whole tone of the school has been 

 improved morally, socially, and esthetically. Our 

 boys and girls have now a reverence for life 

 unknown before, and it has awakened in them, as 



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