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it for twenty years. According to last year’s report, the total 
geen iat wae ¢ 1 Tessiae er 1 
3,581; and the value of the produce, $50,000. Acreage increased 
from 27 in 1897 to 196 in 1916; the number of gardens from 100 
to 756; the total product from $6,000 to $50,000. These results 
highest oe he idea was widely adopted; even the 
railroad companies of ne recognized its value by granting to 
their employees the use of vacant strips of land here and there 
An earnest e! de b r. Powell (the then Super- 
intendent of the Philadelphia Society) to have the plan adopte 
y the railroads in this country. succeeded in having i 
introduced on a comparatively large scale by the Pennsylvania 
ailroad. 
Many and interesting are the stories told by Mr. Powell of 
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results—of health restored, of independence gained, of heroic 
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impulse to follow that which is truest and best; all of eos en- 
forcing the truth that getting a thing is infinitely ig 
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into the public pee where it has been a prominent success 
from the start. Already the day of experiment is is past, —nature 
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children how to grow flowers and vegetables by having them do 
the actual work, so that they may have such practical knowledge 
