Supplement to 



junior IRaturalist /Ihontbl^ 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell 

 University, from October to May, and entered at 

 Ithaca as second°clas£ matter. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE Q. McCLOSKEV, Editor 



New Series. Vol. 2. ITHACA, N. Y., MARCH, 1906. 



No. 6 



BILLY BOY AND HIS GARDEN 



John W. Spencer 

 Tell me, Billy Boy, 

 what you intend doing 

 with that box? Oh! 

 yes, now I understand. 

 You say that you 

 mean to have a gar- 

 den this summer and 

 you will first sow the 

 seed in shallow boxes 

 and keep the boxes in 

 the house away from 

 cold sj)ring storms. 

 You can attend to 

 them there while they 

 are little, very much 

 as a baby is cared for 

 when in the cradle. 

 But it seems to me 

 that the box is much 

 larger than you will Fig. 1. — Just the thing to saw into -flats. 



need for a crib for infant plants. 



I am pleased to see you set about it so early. -They say that it is the 

 early bird that catches the worm, and I think that it is the early gardener 

 who catches the good prices for his produce. 



To be tardy and unwatchful of opportunities causes damage and loss 

 to men of all trades, but to none quite so much as to the farmer. He must 

 be " on hand " every time. 



Mother Nature when left to herself never waits nor hastens in her 

 round-the-year work, but men have learned that with a little skill she can 

 be so managed as to perform wonders for their profit and pleasure ; like 

 fresh lettuce in April and fine thrifty tomato plants ready for transplant- 

 ing in late May. 



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