BOYS' GARDEN 



ers of this playground generously offered the 

 use of as much of this land as was needed for 

 the garden, and twenty-five dollars were con- 

 tributed for tools. The Village Improvement 

 Association had the ground plowed and har- 

 rowed. Seed and manure were donated and the 

 use of a small barn for storing tools was given 



Good Gardeners, Boys' Garden, Groton, Mass. 



by a farmer who was in sympathy with the 

 undertaking. The teachers volunteered their 

 services, and when the garden was a living 

 proposition and spoke for itself, fifteen dollars 

 were given for prizes. When the work began, 

 the plot was an unpromising piece of ground, 

 full of weeds, witch-grass, and plowed-up gla- 

 cial boulders; but the boys went to work with 



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