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responsibility, gentleness, and a love for the beautiful and 

 for growing things. In many places it may be made very 

 practical, as a means for teaching gardening, elementary 

 agriculture, and horticulture. 



Strange to say, the most successful children's gardens are 

 to be found in the larger cities. One of the most remarkable 



Fig. 97. Children's Farm School, DeWitt Clinton Park, New York City. 



is the Children's Farm in the DeWitt Clinton Park of New 

 York City. This is because the growing of plants is a 

 revelation and intense joy to city-bred children, whose nature 

 instinct has been starved. In such places the greatest 

 enthusiasm prevails among the little gardeners. 



It has been found that children's gardening is one of the 

 very best ways of combating the evil moral effects of tenement 

 and slum life. In such centres school and vacation gardens 

 have worked a positive revolution in the habits and thoughts 



