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IT is becoming increasingly common for rural elementary schools to start a garden in which the scholars may take a certain number of lessons during the season. The idea of a school,garden appeals to the village community; the village critic is nothing if not practical, and he insists, and with a good show of. reason, that if book-learning is any good at all it ought to teach a man how to raise onions and potatoes, well. So successful has the movement been that. it has spread widely, and has reached a stage when the whole question of the relation of gardening to rural education may usefully be considered.
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The Educational Value of the School Garden 1 . Nature 84, 220 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084220a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084220a0