CORNELL 



R^ural School Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



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

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

 at Ithaca, Hew 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 MILTON PRATT JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 



ITHACA, N. Y., MARCH, 1909 



No. 7 



GARDEx^ING 



Gardening is real fun for boys and girls as well as for grown folks. 

 There are many wonderful and beautiful gardens that I know about 

 my home, gardens in which grow Roses and Lilies as well as Foxgloves, 

 Bachelor's Buttons, Poppies, and some of the other things that grew 

 long ago in our grandmother's gardens. I wish you might know some 

 of the persons who care for these gardens. Many of them have done 

 splendid things in the world and I think in their busy lives they find 

 no greater pleasure than being among the growing things by daylight 

 and by moonlight and by starlight. A garden always gives pleasure 

 to one who knows how to enjoy it, for he finds 



"Color in the daytime, 

 Perfume in the night there." 



In order to be a good gardener one must begin young. Nobody can 

 tell you how to make a garden by having you read a printed page. You 

 have to begin yourself to learn about the soil and the seeds and the 

 tender green plants. This is the reason we want the young persons in 



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