78 THE SCHOOL GARDEN. 



and societies, friends of youth and of the people, what- 

 ever officers or potentates there may be take unto 

 yourselves the idea of the school garden, and introduce 

 it into active life ! 



The school garden is secured a good future on Aus- 

 trian ground. The Austrian people, with its warm re- 

 ceptivity of every* thing good, its keen sense of beauty, 

 and its matchless capacity for self-sacrifice in every t 

 thing that concerns the schools, will vie with Sweden in 

 the field of the school garden. 



A time will come when it will be difficult to under- 

 stand how, for centuries hitherto, public school instruc- 

 tion and educational institutions have been able to exist 

 without school gardens, so simple and obvious is the 

 idea but that time will not come of itself. Hundreds 

 and hundreds of actively benevolent men must put their 

 hands to the work for the furthering of this ideal con- 

 ception which must be connected with the whole ful- 

 ness of life, in order powerfully to further the advance 

 of the people in both the material and spiritual spheres. 



