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crops, of gathering seeds for next year's planting; that October was a 

 month of harvest and clearing away; and that November was a time for 

 covering bulbs, spading up beds, and thorough manuring. 



Each child in his allotted 12 X 14 feet has had both summers a row each 

 of parsley, radish, beet, carrot, purple-top turnip or spinach, kohlrabi, 

 parsnip, onion, golden-eyed wax beans, tomato, cabbage, cucumber, and 

 lettuce; and of these by care in rotation he has had four crops of radish, 

 two of wax beans, two of turnip, and three of lettuce. 



The two-foot borders which extend on all four sides of the garden and 

 which each child has taken keen delight in were gay with wild sunflowers, 

 wild asters, zinnia, sweet-william, bachelor's button, snap-dragon, cosmos, 

 mignonette, California and Shirley poppies, French and African marigolds, 

 asters, calendula, sweet alyssum and candytuft; and tulip, narcissus, 

 daffodil and hyacinth; and fox-glove, Canterbury-bells, hollyhocks, 

 rudbeckia, pansies, dahlias, coreopsis, forget-me-not, dianthus pink, and 

 columbine. A part of the border was devoted to a seed-frame. On the 

 netting were nasturtiums, sweet-peas, morning-glories, clematis on the 

 rustic posts, honey-suckle; also gourds, cucumbers, pumpkins and — 

 after a year's experimenting, tomatoes and summer squash. 



The produce was sufficient — were every other testimonial wanting — 

 to prove the worth of the gardens. 



The results of this two years' garden work in South Natick have been 

 manifestly good. Everything has been provided most bountifully, tools 

 and a neat little house," set conveniently in the bushes, to keep them in. 

 Although but sixteen have profited yearly by the work and instruction, 

 yet the influence of the garden has spread far beyond the immediate mem- 

 bers of the garden club. Little produce has been sold, by far the greater 

 part has gone to the homes. Parents have, of course, become interested 

 and, in a few cases, have helped prepare bits of land at home for a vege- 

 table garden. Flower beds and borders, such as everyone in the country 

 has, have thrived better because of the application bf liquid manure, 

 ceaseless cultivation, and soil mulching; knowledge of which was gained 

 in the "Garden." There is every reason whj^ the garden at South Natick 

 should be a success; it is charmingly situated; it is most liberally provided 

 for; and it is an object of interest and delight and even pride to all passers- 

 by who have only good-will for the South Natick Garden Club and its 

 Garden. 



