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GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 



has proved itself a real force in education on account of 

 these very " connecting qualities." In other words, it makes 

 a capital bridge, the academic end of which is to be found 

 in the seclusion of the school, while the other end reaches 

 into the very midst of the bustling world. Like a little 



whirlpool the school 

 draws into its sacred 

 precincts the social 

 activity and the hard 

 sense of the market 

 and of the street ; and 

 on the other hand 

 men of affairs are 

 showing every day 

 that not all the good 

 teaching in the world 

 is being done in the 

 schoolroom or by a 

 teacher. In garden- 

 ing, the verdict as to 

 whether things are 

 fit to eat, or to sell, 

 makes a welcome 

 substitute for the old- 

 time marking system. 

 However stiff a test 

 this may be, it is at the same time so stimulating that one 

 begins to wish that all the products of a school were of such 

 a nature that they might be carried to market. 



Another advantage in the pursuit of gardening is that it 

 does not limit itself to a neighborhood, to a township, or 

 even to a continent ; the interest is spread far and wide. 

 The tidal wave of modern gardening is felt round the world. 



ARE THESE READY FOR MARKET? 



