Notes From the Children's Corner of the Garden 



Gardening in 191 8 

 Sent to The XATURE-SxtDY Review from Washington, D. C 



Nov. 18, 1918. 



In the spring of 19 18 the boys on our block made a great sacrifice for the aid 

 of the AlHes. They gave up the lot they played baseball on, to make a war 

 garden. And what was more, they helped to work that lot into shape for 

 potatoes, chard, beans, com and tomatoes. They helped to build a fence 

 around it, to make it safe from thieves. 



I had charge of the beans, and I hope that if I ever eat another bean it will 

 be a store bean, for every time I see one of the beans I raised it reminds me of 

 last summer. I worked in an office part of the day, but in the early morning 

 and in the evening I nearly broke my back tending to those beans. Say. if I 

 could have sold weeds for a cent apiece, I would be a millionaire by now just 

 with the weeds I pulled from around those beans. 



And then autumn came, and the beans had to be picked. That wasn't so 

 bad, but I only got about two and a half bushels, whereas I thought I would 

 get a carload. 



I am not what you would call a garden fiend, but I am planning to have a 

 garden next year, because the Allies and we, oiirselves, have to eat the same as 

 last year, and it would not be wise to let up, just when we are getting the 

 knack of gardening. 

 7th Grade, Ross School. James Moonev. 



Our Home Garden 



Last year when I lived in Georgetown, my father and I had a back yard 80 

 ft. long and 16 ft. wide. We spaded it up in the month of April, planted a part 

 of it in onion sets, sowed lettuce seed and radishes in drilled rows. In twenty- 

 one days' time we had radishes all we could eat, and in thirty days we had 

 onions and lettuce. In the early spring we had kale. We planted a part of it 

 in early bush string beans. On either side of the walk we had a row of toma- 

 toes. When the radishes and onions were gone, we replanted in radishes and 

 onions and Kentucky wonder beans with sweet com to support the beans as 

 they grew up. We had a bed of parsley and spring mint which we sold as 

 fast as it grew. 



We had lima beans around the fence which formed a beautiful wall of green 

 from which we had messes of them until the frost killed them . One Sunday 

 morning we picked thirty-five ripe tomatoes, twenty-three of which weighed 

 twenty-five pounds. We had a family of eight and more vegetables than we 

 could eat. We picked three bushels of string beans in one week. The largest 

 tomato we raised weighed three lbs. and six oz. We had some beans from the 

 Philippine variety which measured from 36 to 40 inches in length. We also 

 raised five stalks of Calabash gourd. We had a bed of celer\-, clymblings and 

 egg plants and salsify. We had a hose which rim from one end of the yard to 

 the other for irrigation purposes. Oiir garden was admired by hvmdreds of 

 people and was pronounced the finest in the District of Columbia for its size. 

 It was located on Wisconsin Ave., the rear of 1229. 

 6 B Grade, Carberry School. Gl.adys Michael. 



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