The Principles of Agriculture through the School and the Home Garden

Abstract

“DAISIES growing a girl” is the title of the frontispiece of this volume and aptly illustrates its aim Through practical work in garden and classroom juvenile cultivators are led towards a broad outlook as members of the community. Problems of the garden lead, on the one hand, to problems of the farm, market, and finance, and on the other hand, to those of the home, city, and public health. By their own experience the children learn, not only how seeds germinate and where mosquitoes breed, but also how, on a plot of garden ground, each can take his share of responsibility as a citizen, Thee are score cards for everything from potatoes to personal hygiene. Even the latter the child scores for himself, and his record counts one-half for his own promotion from class to class in school! Such is “school-gardening” as actually carried out in the Western States to-day.

The Principles of Agriculture through the School and the Home Garden.

By C. A. Stebbins. Pp. xxvi + 380. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1913.) Price 4s. 6d. net.