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Home Nature-Study Course. 



under conditions that would cause a hill of beans to turn yellow and 

 shiver with an overcoat on, so to speak. It is because of this difference 

 of plants that I have laid stress on the position of the sun's rays as 

 a guide for planting. 



Tools. 



About the poorest service for cultivating are the tin and sheet iron 

 things personifying trowels, spades and rakes, sold at the hardware and 

 five and ten cent stores. They are but toys, and lit only for use in 

 kindergarten sand piles. Yet for apprentices it may be just as well to 



The right kind of a garden tool. 



buy them. A good tool, children of younger years will lose or fail to 

 keep clean, and the tools lose their efficiency by rusting. The adult who 

 spades or otherwise prepares the handkerchief gardens, must have a 

 spading fork and garden rake to give the soil a thorough preparation. 

 When the children are advanced from apprentice gardeners to the grade 

 of journeymen gardeners, they will require more effective tools than the 

 sheet iron and pot metal things spoken of above. 



Sowing of Seed. 



I do not mean sowing a long and promiscuous list of seeds, but 

 sowing the apprentice list of the polar bear class that I mentioned on a 

 previous page. The indoor experience of sowing peppergrass, radishes 



