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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. 
ARE THESE READY FOR MARKET ? ® ^ 
H owever 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. 
