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Excerpt from Gardening as a Means of Correlating Home and School Activities War gardens has, during the last two years, become a famil iar and even intimate term with the masses of our American pe0p1e. Uncle Sam sent out the warning note. Word was passed from family to family that we must not only conserve, but we must produce. Every garden that furnished fresh food for a family made it possible to send other foods, most needed, to our soldiers over there. American women, who in time of peace, indulged in ease and luxury, now took to gardening as a means of doing their bit and gradually others went into it because it became the thing. Many of these will remain in it because they have tasted the joys of gardening and because it has proven its value. War gardens will become permanent as Victory Gardens.' War gardening has given a tremendous impulse to school garden work. For many years leading educators and garden ex perts have realized the value of home and school gardens, but the development has come slowly and nothing but a war could have given it the place that it now occupies. Much has been written and said of its value educationally, but the 'results of the war gardens have furnished arguments in its favor that are funda mental and conclusive. Never before have school gardens been so much in demand and as a part of the school curriculum. The school garden movement owes much to the response of the five million boys and girls to Uncle Sam's call for volunteers in the United States School Garden Army. This united force of boys and girls did much to increase the food production of our nation last year.. At the same time it has shown What a tremendous force organized garden work is for good. 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.