XVI 
INTRODUCTION 
mental, moral and physical development 
than those not having gardens. The 
sehool garden tends to develop the best 
traits in the children, and to create in 
them a love for the beautiful. It gives 
play to all their motor activities, 
and shows that results follow causes, 
and is one of the best methods of curing 
them of stealing. They begin to under- 
stand something of ownership and respon- 
sibility, and look more kindly at their 
neighbor’s products, and, as they do not 
wish to lose their own, that for which 
they have worked, the value of the 
product of another is more forcibly 
demonstrated to them. The school 
garden can be made especially valuable 
to girls, particularly those in the city, as 
they do not have the same liberties of 
the street as have boys, and are in the 
open air and sunshine all too little for 
good, strong physical development. 
