GARDKN CLUBS IN SCHOOLS OF KNiiLEWOOH. N. J. 



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howeviT, the siipi'ix ixir I'oiiini thai il' lir hiiiisi'lf I'liti'ied into the 

 work, s(K)n tlie boys of the whole nei«;hl)orli()(Hl woiihl be on the 

 groiiiul ready to UmuI a haiul. 



Spad'imj. — After the soil was (leared, spadino; was the next oper- 

 ation. Here a«raiii iiulixidiial instriietion had to aeconipany the 

 work of the chihlren. Especially \va> this the ease anion*; the chil- 

 dren of the tenement district. All steps — incbidin«ij the pnshin<r 

 of the s{)adin«jr fork deep into the <rro\ind; the easy way of iiftinjr 

 it wlien full of soil; the tnrninir of the surface rui)bish, manure, 

 and sod (h»wn and the loose soil u|): and the breakin*:; of clods — 

 were of necessity carefully explained. 



Rakituj. — The knack of makin^f a smooth seed bed with a rake, 

 which conies only with much jiractice, was apparent in the final 



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work of only a compaiatively few children. All but a \i^vy few, 

 however, did manajje to get their gardens into fairly good shape 

 for planting after much effort with both edges of the rake. 



I*hint'nuf. — In sowing seeds and moving |)lants, most of the chil- 

 dren made their rows stiaight an<l parallel by means of a garden 

 line and a ride. Some, however, used a board where the rows 

 were .short. They made their trenches with a i"ake handle, the 

 back edge of a rake, a Ikk*. (»r the edge of a board. In some cases 

 the seed was scatteied by taking a handful and working it over the 

 index finger with the thumb. In other cases the seed envelope was 

 cut straight across one en<l and the seed distributed by .shifting 

 the envelope to right and left with the cut edge above and parallel 



