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Publishers and editor offer Gardening to 

 the schools with every confidence in its 

 sincerity and practicability. They believe 

 it to be that rare product in the publish- 

 ing world, a text in a subject that holds a 

 secondary place in the schools, worked out 

 with the same skill and attention to details 

 that are given to the making of texts in 

 subjects having a major place in the curric- 

 ulum. World Book Company shares the 

 author's conviction that gardening should 

 be taught in our schools. Its hearty accord- 

 ance -with a pedagogy that combines know- 

 ing and doing in an almost perfect way might 

 easily havf .been forecast from the motto, 

 'Th* application of the world's knowledge 

 tb the- world's needs." Alike to the friends 

 of school gardening and to those who do 

 not yet realize the educational richness of the 

 garden field, this volume is commended 



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