CHAPTER IV. 



ITS SOCIAL AND CLIMATIC INFLUENCE. 



The first point of view, in which the rural population 

 should recommend the acceptance of the school garden, 

 is the elevation it will effect in the condition of the 

 people. How a hundred useful incentives can be given 

 in it, to the future hfusbandman, has been repeatedly 

 pointed out in this little work. 



If the State, the committees, the useful unions, or 

 patriotic men, wish to naturalize and nationalize a new 

 calling which is connected with husbandry, with resi- 

 dence in the country, and chiefly with mother nature, 

 then will the teachers, the men, the school, be exclu- 

 sively, or, at least specially, in favor of the school 

 garden and a place for it. In the school garden, and 

 by means of it, an abundance of new and practical 

 thoughts will be diffused among the people ; for, in the 

 capability of perfection of the school garden (no mo- 

 ment being left out of sight), lie the seeds of new dis- 

 coveries and inventions which are to be made by 

 teachers, by compatriots, by the friends of schools and 

 of nature. He who has been happy for eight years of 



