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killing frost in your locality ? When danger from the frost is over set out 

 the plants in the garden. 



Perennials. Prepare a seed bed for perennials. Let each student try 

 to grow one sort. Select the best perennials, including in the list asparagus, 

 rhubarb, hollyhocks, and phlox. Find out what varieties of these as well 

 as of the others are best suited to your locality. Plant seeds of them and 

 in the fall transplant to their permanent locality in the school garden. 

 Mark the spots where they are set so that they will not be disturbed in the 

 spring cultivation. 



Bulbs. Find out how to plant these several sorts of bulbs, both indoors 

 and out, including information regarding time to plant, the depth at which 

 they should be planted, and the distance apart in the bed: paper-white 

 narcissus, jonquil, crocus, daffodil, freesia, Roman hyacinth, hyacinth, 

 amaryllis. Write up this information on the opposite page. Set some of 

 these in pots for indoor blooming and some in beds outdoors. 



Preparation of soil, cultivation, and handling fertilizer. In the work 

 with seeds and seedlings we have studied the principles underlying the 

 preparation of the soil, its cultivation, and the use of fertilizers. For a 

 review answer the following: Why is the soil spaded and raked? How 

 deep would it be wise to spade ? Why is the garden hoed ? During what 

 sort of weather must it be hoed and raked most ? Is it wise to dig paths 

 between the beds or should they be on the level with the beds ? Test 

 the garden soil to see if it needs lime. How much should be applied to a 

 square rod? 



Fertilization. Lay out a plot, say, 16 ft. square (or smaller) and 

 fertilize the upper half with a good dressing of manure dug in well in the fall. 

 Lime the right-hand half. Plant the middle half in September with winter 

 vetch and dig this green fertilizer in, in the early spring, at the time spading 

 the whole plot. Plant tomatoes or cabbage on the whole plot and cultivate 

 all with equal care. Weigh the crop from each of the following portions: 



1. Manured, but not limed nor green manured. 



2. Manured, limed, but not green manured. 



3. Manured, not limed, but green manured. 



4. Manured, limed, and green manured. 



5. Not manured nor limed, but green manured. 



6. Not manured, but limed and green manured. 



7. Not manured, limed, nor green manured. 



8. Not manured nor green manured, but limed. 



In a similar way a portion of the school garden can be used as a demon- 

 stration plot to try out the value of various commercial fertilizers or methods 

 of cultivation on the chief crops of the locality. 



