HOME GARDEN REPORTS. 241 



Three crops of radishes, two of lettuce and two of beans — golden wax 

 and string — were grown. Each child paid twenty-five cents for the 

 privilege of having a garden and realized many dollars worth of vegetables, 

 sometimes sold, more often taken home and used for the family. 



The garden suffered little from the prevailing drought of the summer. 

 For by the courtesy of the committees of the Industrial School water was 

 piped do'mi direct to the garden, and the children watered assiduously 

 on their garden days, — twenty or more pots of water to each individual 

 plot being the rule. 



One week from the date of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 Show an exhibit was held at the Industrial School. Each child had a 

 table covered with white paper for his or her own exhibit in the big se\ving 

 room of the school. The tables were loaded with vegetables and bordered 

 with parsley, and with flowers everywhere in tall vases the room w-as quite 

 in gala attire. Outside the garden itself was on exhibition and even this 

 late in the simimer made an excellent showing. It is a significant fact that 

 although the children had taken their vegetables all summer as soon as 

 they were ready, that although a sufficient number had been gathered for 

 the Horticultural Exhibit to fill one of their long tables, that although each 

 child took all she w^anted for her table at the Industrial School that there 

 should be ample and to spare left in the gardens themselves so that it 

 took a number of weeks to get the gardens cleared out and put in shape 

 for the winter. 



The produce was enough to warrant any expenditure of time, labor, 

 and money at this garden of the Industrial School. But the produce 

 is not the only testimonial. A love for growing things has been planted in 

 the children's hearts and a sense of the need for both beauty and utility 

 in the great plan. 



Home Garden Reports. 



Report of the Marlborough School and Home Industrl\l 



Association. 



by o. a. morton. 



The Marlborough School and Home Industrial Association submits here- 

 with a report of the work done during the year. 



Gardening as a phase of industrial work had been discussed for some 

 time, but nothing definite had been done because there was not a school 

 lot in the city that adapted itself to garden work. 



Last spring the subject of home gardening was discussed with the school 



