Sweet Pea Culture" is a little book- 

 let issued free by C. C. Morse & Co., 4S 

 Jackson street. San Francisco. Send 

 for it, tot it will help you to select the 

 best variety of seeds to plant. If you 

 write to Mr. Morse, Junior gardeners, 

 thank him for the seeds which he has 

 given you through the university. 



GARDEN NOTES 



A California Junior Gardening club 

 has been started in the Garfield school, 

 Oakland. There are 39 members. Miss 

 U Phillips, the teacher, will be in 

 charge. 



Miss B. Langenour has organized a 

 club of 25 in Woodland. 



Mary Thornton, age 13, is the newly 

 elected secretary of a Palo Alto club. 



Leland McConnell. age 13, is the sec- 

 retary of a club of 20 members, organ- 

 ized by Ruth Kellogg, in the San 

 Joaquin district, Sacramento county. 



The Las Lomitas district, San Mateo 

 cojnty, Miss E. A. Wilkins, teacher, has 

 organized with 25 children. Gladys 

 Lightbody was elected secretary. 



The Fillmore district, Yolo county, 

 M ss Julia Bray, teacher, numbers 22 

 boys and girls, with Mary Kampke sec- 

 retary. 



Mr. Abbott of the Armona district, 

 Kings county, starts with more than 

 50 gardeners, Alice Hitchcock, secre- 

 ta ry. 



"We hope to hear from these club 

 members from time to time. Pictures 

 of the gardens sent to the editor will 

 be published. Each member of our big 

 class wants to see and to know what 

 the other is doing. There is not a 

 schoolroom in California large enough 

 to hold our class, and soon even the 

 Greek theater at Berkeley would not 

 hold it. 



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Are you reading and studying the 

 garden lessons? Later we may ask 

 your teachers to give you a written 

 lesson, and prizes may be given for the 

 best answers. If you can answer the 

 questions at the end of the lessons you 

 may win one of the prizes. 



We hope that you are performing 

 the exerc ses suggested in each lesson. 



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Thp first mothers' market day at 

 the Berkeley garden city netted about 

 ?5. Radishes and turnips were the 

 main productions. We feel the need 

 of our bank at once. It will be es- 

 tablished soon. 



We visited the Franklin school gar- 

 dens of Oakland last week. They are 

 the best gardens that we have seen 

 lately. The secretary of the club and 

 her iriend have a home garden worth 

 while. By the way, have you a home 

 garden? Would not sweet peas look 

 well on that unattractive fence? Would 

 not a few flowers add to the yard? 



There are thousands of children in 

 California. If each would help to 

 beautify the home just a little, so much 

 good would be done. 



More than 50 mothers and fathers 

 visited the gardens of the Californ.a 

 garden city on the state university 

 campus last Saturday, the occasion be- 

 ing the first market day of the season. 

 There was a fine display of lettuce, 

 radishes, Swedish turnips and greens, 

 and, taking into consideration the fact; 

 that the gardens have only been under 

 way about six weeks, the proceeds, 

 which amounted to about $5, were most 

 encouraging. 



Beginning with last week the garden 

 city from now on will hold one day 

 apart, which shall be known as "moth- 

 ers' day," when the parents will be at 

 liberty to vis t the market and pur- 

 chase their supplies from their own 

 boys and girls. Ninety per cent of the 

 money thus obtained will be given the 

 children, while the remaining 10 per 

 cent will be placed in the garden city 



To Grow Flowers 



Dorothy Dow, 

 Junior Gardening Club, Durum School 



We were a long time in starting our 

 garden because we could not get the 

 seeds. 



When at last they came the boys 

 dug the ground up and divided it into 

 plats, while some of the girls divided 

 the seeds into packages for the differ- 

 ent children. 



As Mr. Dunbar, the principal of our 

 school, was kind enough to give us 

 the land, yesterday after school we 

 went down to plant our seeds. 



Everybody was very much excited, 

 and it looks very nice. 



In my garden I planted sweetpeas, 

 cosmos, carrots and parsley. 



When we get some more seeds I am 

 going to plant poppies and pansies. 



An Experiment to Show Osmosis 



EUNICE PONES, 



Oakland. Franklin School, A Fifth 



Grade. 



This week we learned a new word. 

 It is "osmosis." This is how we learned 

 the meaning of it: The teacher took 

 two dried lima bean seed coats and put 

 a few sugar crystals in them. Then 

 she filled a glass three-fourths full of 

 water. She then put one of the coats 

 on a dry glass slide and put the other i 

 in the water to float. 



The results were, the sugar remained 

 dry in the coat on the slide and in 

 the other one it melted. 



This shows that the water enters the 

 seed by osmosis through the pores of 

 the coat as well as through the mi- 

 cropyle. 



Communications should be sent to 



C. A. STEBBINS, Editor 

 Agricultural Education Division 



