Excerpt from School and Home Gardening: A Text Book for Young People, With Plans, Suggestions and Helps for Teachers, Club Leaders and Organizers The author has tried to make this little volume so full of useful hints and practical instruction for young people, teachers, and parents, that it will lead to the making of. Many good home gardens in both city and country. The school garden movement should have for its main object the starting of home gardens by both young and old. All other objects of school gardening, as herein enumerated, should be given a trend towards this one great aim. In this volume many simple home and school exercises are briefly outlined, for the purpose of developing the under lying principles. It will be found that the trial of these exercises will develop much thought in the young mind, and a greater interest will be maintained. Suggestions to teachers and club leaders are given in Part III. The first two chapters of the book should also be read by leaders in the garden work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.