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children are capable of taking part in it, by their train- 

 ing in the school garden, this value will be doubled. 

 Now they are too often shut out from a participation 

 with us in its pleasures because the luxury is so expensive 

 a one that it must be guarded from injury. But when 

 it is chiefly the children's work, what an added tie it 

 will be to home ! TR.] Plans for home gardens should 

 be given to the children in school, where there is not 

 space for actual model gardens, and societies for the 

 beautifying of the land should draw up these plans for 

 the school gardens. It is chiefly the teachers who issue 

 from the teachers' seminaries upon whom will devolve 

 the pleasant duty of modelling, improving and extending 

 the home garden ; and with them will be found the 

 treasury of beautiful plans. 



EFFECT IN CITIES. 



How much more beautiful will life in the cities be, 

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when the possessors of great dwelling houses can give 

 their inmates the enjoyment of a home garden, or at 

 least of a grass-plot ornamented with flowers and shrubs ! 

 And how deeply will it be engraved in the hearts of the 

 rural population when the peasants' gardens, one of the 

 most immemorial forms of cultivation, will be again a 

 common source of enjoyment in places that do not pos- 

 sess it to-day ! In a polyglot kingdom, offering such 

 manifold stages of material and spiritual culture as the 

 Austro-Hungarian monarchy, one has an opportunity to 

 find types of a national home garden stamped by the 

 whole people. But most home gardens of most nations, 

 both Slavic and Roman, form a striking contrast to the 

 ideal attainable under the various given conditions in 

 modern times. They bear the inherited impress of 



