A PROBLEM SOLVED. 



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much from the school room as it will from the school 

 garden, where intercourse is unrestrained, and which 

 can be seized and felt by the soul of the child in 

 all its depths. These school gardens should belong 

 also to orphan asylums and to those schools which 

 children frequent who are not yet of an age to attend 

 the manufacturers' schools ; they will be under the care 

 of the wife of the teacher, who can also take charge 

 of the instruction of the little girls in womanly occu- 

 pations, when once the school garden has the neces- 

 sary enlargement for this purpose. A good school 

 garden will also offer for the instruction, by observation, 

 of little children, the richest and best material, and give 

 them an opportunity to become acquainted with the 

 plant world for common and practical purposes. It 

 will destroy superstition in the people, battle with quack- 

 ery, help to banish improvidence, cultivate love of na- 

 ture and confidence in her teachings. 



A PROBLEM OF EDUCATION SOLVED. 



A judicious and well planned school garden will 

 surely solve an essential part of the problem of the peo- 

 ple's education, and help to educate an intelligent and 

 circumspect working power, which, accustomed to ask 

 the what the how and the why upon every subject, will 

 cultivate a correct judgment upon those things and rela- 

 tions in life with which they have to do. It will culti- 

 vate also reflective and active natures, from whom sul- 

 lenness and indolence stand aloof, who have made their 

 own a powerful and persevering will, because they have 

 learned thoroughly by their little labors in the school 

 garden to do in an orderly and capable manner what- 

 ever they have to do. 



