616 EVERYDAY SCIENCE 



"The Home Garden " (Chapters XIV to XVII), Eben E. Rex- 

 ford. J. B. Lippincott Co., 1909. 



Flowers. " A-B-C of Gardening," Eben E. Rexford. Harper and 

 Bros., 19.15. A very simple and useful book on flower culture. 



"Yard and Garden," Tarkington Baker. Bobbs-Merrill Co., 

 1908. On the care of lawn, flowers, vines, shrubs, and trees. A 

 good all-around book for the amateur. 



"Manual of Gardening," L. H. Bailey. Macmillan Co., 1911. 

 A larger book than either of the two preceding. It treats of the 

 care of the lawn, ornamental plants, shrubs, and trees, and devotes 

 a chapter each to the growing of small fruits and of vegetables. 



PROJECT XXXIX. How to Raise Strawberries without Garden 

 Space, pages 366-399 



It frequently happens in crowded sections of cities that there is 

 no space in yards or near-by vacant lots for any kind of gardening. 

 It is interesting and profitable, therefore, to see what can be done 

 with a flour-barrel or any other tightly constructed barrel 

 filled with rich, loamy soil, and placed on a sunlit balcony or in a 

 sunny corner of a paved court. 



After the barrel has been filled with good rich soil thoroughly 

 mixed with well-rotted manure, draw circles about the barrel par- 

 allel to the top and about six inches apart, beginning with a circle 

 six inches below the mouth of the barrel. On the lines of these 

 circles bore one-inch holes in the barrel, six inches apart. The holes 

 of each succeeding circle should be bored just below the middle of 

 the spaces in the circle above. 



In the soil on top and in the holes bored through the sides set 

 strawberry plants. The suggested arrangement of holes gives the 

 maximum of light and air to each of the plants growing from the 

 holes. Two such barrels can be made to supply a good sized family 

 with strawberries in season. 



Remember to keep the barrel where it can get the sunlight and 

 be sure to keep it watered. Be sure not to keep it drenched. If 

 water keeps running through the soil in too great abundance and 



