Money to Be Changed Into Glen 

 Park School Banner 



DANIEL LYNCH 



The children of the Glen Park school 

 have taken great interest in the agri- 

 cultural movement. We have planted 

 various kinds of vegetables, including 

 parsley, onions, carrots, beets, turnips, 

 radishes, lettuce, parsnips, endives, 

 peas, beans and muskmelons. 



The day after May day I read the 

 fcllowing in The Call: 



"Some school without a banner had 

 its pretty girls in bright hued gowns, 

 and on each head a bright pink bow on 

 01 e side and a pale blue on the other." 



That school whicn was so unfortu- 

 nate as to be without a banner is, I am 

 sorry to say. the Glen Park school. 

 But u shall be without a banner no 

 longer, for the enthusiastic gardeners 

 have decided to buy a banner with the 

 money derived from the sale of vege- 

 tables. A few of the children in one 

 of the smaller classes proposed this 

 p:an to Miss McDcrmott and it was met 

 with approval, not only by Miss McDer- 

 mott, but also by Miss Wade, our prin- 

 cipal, and all the gardeners. 



We have only sold our radishes, as 

 the other vegetables are not large 

 enough to dispose of. 



Last week the eighth grade pupils 

 thinned their turnips and found sale 

 for the greens. I have been told that 

 these greens, when cooked, form a 

 good substitute for spinach. 



We planted onion seeds twice, but 

 somehow or other we did not have luck 

 with them and therefore were forced 

 to p'ant onion sets. 



W e transplanted our lettuce and beets 

 and the first two days they looked as 

 if they would not grow, but on the 

 third day I was surprised to see them 

 lift their heads. Some of, the children 

 were not successful in their trans- 

 planting, because they handled the 

 plants too roughly. 



Each class is allowed one hour a 

 week to devote to its vegetables.. For 

 instance I, as president, choose four 

 children to work in the garden on Tues_ 

 day for half an hour; and four different 



children on Thursday for the same 

 length of time. I choose the children 

 from the B eighth grade on Tuesday 

 and from the A eighth grade on Thurs- 

 day, thus giving every gardener a 

 chance to work in the garden. 



All the other classes do likewise, al- 

 though they do not all choose the same 

 day. 



We have the following amount in the 

 treasury: 



Eighth grade $0.05 



Seventh grade 15 



B sixth grade .10 



A sixth grade 20 



A fifth grade 20 



B fifth grade 05 



Fourth grade 15 



Third grade 15 



Total $1.05 



This amount was obtained from the 

 sale of radishes and turnip greens only. 



Energetic Alhambra Gardeners 



MARY SUTTON 



In Alhambra we have four ward 

 schools and one central high school. 

 The high school and three of the other 

 schools have school gardens. 



At the Garfield Avenue school we 

 have two garden plats. One belongs 

 to the lower grades and the other to 

 the higher grades. Besides these school 

 gardens there are 181 pupils who have 

 home gardens. 



The pupils of the sixth grade in this 

 school have organized a junior garden- 

 ing club. There are 25 members of our 

 club. We receive the Junior Agricul- 

 turist. 



We (the club) have sold 55 cents' 

 worth of radishes from our garden this 

 year and will have peas, turnips, beans 

 and onions ready for market before the 

 close of school in June. 



This is our first year in gardening. 

 We like the work. 



The Week's Reading List 



1. Plants and Their Children — Mrs. 

 Dana. 



2. Little Flower People — Hale. 



3. Seed Travels — C. Weed. 



A Vacant Lot in North San Francisco Before Beautifying by a California Junior Garden Club. 



