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GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 
vegetables that will ripen before the end of June, frankly 
giving up the crops that need attention during July and 
August. The writer of a recent popular book on nature 
study would have us accept the notion that a school garden 
can, without much attention, '' worry through the summer,” as 
he calls it. "In fact,” he continues, " a neglected garden may 
be made to furnish some excellent lessons in the study of 
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" WHO ’S WHO IN THE GARDEN ” 
weeds, overcrowding, insect effects, etc.” To be sure, he does 
not advocate this as an ideal way of conducting a school gar- 
den. And yet it is not reasonable that any believer in real 
gardening should with so little concern drop midsummer 
out of the calendar. 
We should realize that a garden effects for good or ill a 
great deal more than the few individuals who run it. Having 
make-believe or half-cared-for gardens in its midst may spoil 
a neighborhood ; even a few weeks of neglect will turn a 
