CORNELL 



R^ural ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACHER] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Otiice 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advise'S 



Vol. 3 



ITHACA N. Y., MARCH, 1910 



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GARDENING 



"(Tbr unturr-iirHirr mail be ticr^jrlual nnh ratxHtant. but thr garbrn-Jipstrr 

 rrturua untb rurrn nrut sprtngtimr" — L. H. Bailey 



In March the garden-desire begins 

 to manifest itself and in almost 

 every mind open to the possibili- 

 ties of the multitude of interests 

 in a garden, the anticipation is full 

 of joy. Dean Bailey says: 



"Sooner or later, every person 

 feels this desire to plant something. 

 It is the return to Eden, the return 

 to ourselves after the long estrange- 

 ment of our artificial lives. One 

 of us dreams of a little patch of 

 orchard bounded by cool grassy 

 banks. Another wants a snug and 

 tidy garden-plat bounded by a wall 

 and a lattice, and at one side a 

 tinker's room of tools, rakes and 

 hoes and watering-cans, and as- 

 sorted sizes of pots, and boxes con- 

 taining string and labels and screws 

 and bits of wire. In this room he would work when the rain falls 

 heavily on the roof and pours across the doorway from the wide-hang- 

 ing eaves. Others want long, trim rows of strawberries, beets and 

 onions, with beds of lettuce, hills of squashes and clumps of hyssoj) and 

 sage in the corners, all ranged and labeled as the bogks on a shelf. Otiiers 

 want tumbling piles of vines shot through with wild asters and the spires 

 of hollyhocks. Still others would roam afield and find their satisfaction 



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