Garden Notes 



This is the garden time of the 

 for most plants. Put the seeds into the 

 • rly; 



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Teachers and children should make 

 Of the "picture and book" corner. 

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New clubs are being formed • 



Within the last t »•. more 



the gardei 

 which numbers nearly ;,.iiuu boys and 



girls. 



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«» wish ee in 



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enta it is •> manual. 



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We articles written by 



Juniors. Send in your compoaitlOl 



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s" ;u,. written by 



children ol mklin school, 



land, Miss A. Sellander, teacher. Teach, 

 lo you not use- the Junior page 

 c new life to your composition 

 work, as has this Oakland teach* 



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Berkeley garden city is flourish- 

 in u. The bank is hard pressed, during 

 nort banking hour, 10:30 to 11 

 k nn Saturday mornings, to handle 

 the financial activities of the city. Many 

 ibles and flowers were sold this 

 last ■ president of the univer- 



sity has kindly given us more land, and 

 through the assistance of the children 

 and the student teachers an embryo city 

 will be ideally built about the gardens. 

 From 20 to 50 visitors are welcomed on 

 garden day. 



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Principal Edgar of the Franklin 

 school, Oakland, itas obtained a vacant 

 lot tot a garden. Under the direction 

 of the regular teachers, Mrs. Smith, 

 lindley and Miss Graham, 160 

 children have made an excellent start. 

 re glad to welcome them all as 

 new members of the great class of 

 California Junior gardeners. The 

 Franklin school children do things so 

 well that we expect "something differ- 

 ent" in school gardens from them. 



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A miniature farm has been started by 



one grade on a sand table under the 



tlon of Miss a. Sellander. The 



small cottage was made in art work. 



Vines and young trees have been grown 



to satisfy landscape architecture. The 



children are making a study of an ideal 



We like this idea, for nothing is 



quite so fundamental to the future of 



t ate as raising the ideals of the 



homes. 



Through the sand and dirt table, art, 

 i y, manual training, arithmetic, 

 etc, mav be given new and vital direc- 

 tion, in addition, the principles of 

 agriculture may be taught. 



Have the boys make a box 4x6 feet 

 and 6 to 8 inches deep. Fill this with 

 equal parts of sand, leaf mold and gar- 

 den soil. Plan in miniature an ideal 

 farm home and reproduce it in the box. 

 young trees, a lawn, flower beds, 

 vegetables and grains in their proper 

 places. Try out simple agricultural ex- 

 periments. "Elementary School Agri- 

 culture," published by the Macmillan 

 company, San Francisco, price 30 cents, 

 will be of assistance. 



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Garden city citizens should hand 

 their grievances in writing to the 

 mayor for adjustment by the council. 



Mr. Packard, in charge of the Im- 

 perial Valley Experiment station, has 

 undertaken the organization of cotton 

 growing contests in Imperial county. A 

 large sum of money has been donated 

 for prizes to be given t l who 



grow the best half acre of cotton. The 

 high school men in the county who are 

 interested in agriculture are to assist 

 Mr. Packard in forming local clubs. One 

 does not know California until a 

 is made through the southland. 



The Awakening of the Seed 

 ii. n .Ns.tv 



oaklniHi. i rnui |la tea* i. v Fifth 

 Orate. 



When I 

 lima bean on it bad 



soaked for three d i the 



ater the 

 through t: 



When the ntered this caused 



SCtlon in the seed and made sugar. The 

 next drawn through the cont 

 of the seed by osmosis. 



w • then opened the seed coat 

 saw the embryo, whlcb is 

 plant, and AS, which are 



wo fat set- 



What awakened the seed? The w 

 awakened the seed, in what kin i ol 

 soil should seeds be i 

 should r ted in moist soil. 



(-IIAPTKR VII 



The Garden 



Now you are ready to start your 

 garden. You should have a home gar- 

 den, whether a garden is given to you 

 at school or not. You may start your 

 garden at any time. If started in the 

 fall, yon must first water the soil well 

 several days before spading. (Exercise 

 3, chapter VI, taught you this.) 



Selection of I'lat — Select as good 

 soil is can be found in a sunny place. 

 If the soil is too clayey, add sand. If 

 humus is necessary, stir in two inches 

 of dry, decayed manure. Plants do not 

 grow wel! in sand or clay alone, as 

 shown by exercise 1, chapter vi. 



I.n>lnx eat Uir <ardrn — Do not make 

 your first garden too large. A plat lOx 

 20 feet for vegetables and a smaller 

 space for flowers will be about all that 

 an attend to. Here is a simple 

 plan for the vegetable garden (figs. 1 

 and 2). 



Most vegetables are sown in rows. 

 The rows should be far enough apart 

 to allow ease of cultivation and trench 

 irrigation, 10 to 14 Inches. Such plants 

 as corn, potatoes, tomatoes, etc., should 

 not be grown next to rows of radish 

 kther low growing plants. Grow 

 them in plots by themselves. Tall 

 growing plant* are best grown on the 

 north, so as not to shade others. 



A l.nrac Harden — You may wish to 

 grow vegetables either at home or at 

 school to sell In the market. Here is 

 what some children have done: 



"During the first year I raised enough 

 garden truck to supply our own family, 

 and besides that I sold $12 worth to the 

 neighbors. With this I bought myself 

 a watch and chain," said one gardener 

 from Ohio Another raised $105 worth 



