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the rain fall on it and watch the bees and moths collecting the 

 honey from the flowers. 



Our garden must be small, for we want a good one. It shall be 

 the best garden in the neighborhood. We shall find a place beside 

 the back fence, or alongside the barn, or in some other out-of-the- 

 way place. It must be in the sunshine, and the eaves must 

 not drip on it. 



We shall shake the earth out of the 

 sod and then carry the grass roots away. 

 We shall bring a wheelbarrow load of 

 rich earth from the barn-yard. 



I shall make my bed about four feet 

 wide and eight feet long. I do not 

 want it very big, or I shall not 

 have time to go fishing, I do not 

 know what kinds of flowers you 

 want to grow, but I shall plant phlox, 

 petunias, China asters, and, 1 think, Cali- 

 fornia poppies. By having four kinds, 

 I can have a space two feet wide for each, 

 — that will make a bed four feet by 

 two, of each kind. I wonder which of 

 us will get the most flowers from these 

 beds? Write me in the fall and let me 

 know how many you had. 



Let me tell you how to water the plants. 



I wonder if you have a watering pot ? 



If you have, put it where you cannot find 



it, for we are going to water this garden 



J- ,-_ with a rake ! We want you to learn, 



is little garden, the first great ^^— Winter is comitig. The 

 lesson in farming,— how to evening primrose in seed. 



save the water in the soil. If you learn that much 

 next summer, you will know more than many old 

 farmers do. You know that the soil is moist in the 

 spring when 3'ou plant the seeds. Where does this 

 moisture g^o to? It dries up, — goes off into the air. 



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gardener. If we could covcr the soil with something, we 



