AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



Mature in: 



Carrots (Early French Forc- 

 ing) 80 days, edible in 60 



Onions (White Portugal) pull 

 any time. 



Lettuce (Black seeded) 42 to 50 days 



Corn (Early Corn) 60 " 70 " * 



A better selection could have been made had 

 there been more time for them to mature, yet all 

 except the corn (which will set in the ear), and 

 possibly the beans, furnish some harvest, even if 

 not full grown or complete. Consultation with 

 a skilful local gardener, or a note accompanying 

 a tentative order to a well established seed house, 

 will solve doubts as to what variety of seed to 

 plant. If the local seed dealers buy of reputable 

 wholesalers, it is well to enlist their interest in the 

 school garden, assuring them for example that 

 so old a house as James Vick's Sons thinks chil- 

 dren's gardens worth a special department wherein 

 the penny packet figures; and that the general 

 testimony throughout the country is that, where 

 school gardens have sprung up, there is an in- 

 creasingly larger sale for flower and vegetable 

 seeds. 



Before planting, the teacher should test the 

 percentage of seed fertility by germinating 50 or 

 100 seeds of each variety (see footnote, p. 184), 



♦ Crops as planted at DeWitt Clinton Park, New York City, and 

 by the normal class in school gardening under Mr. Henry G. Parsons 

 at the University of New York, University Heights, Season of July 

 2-Aug. 1 1 , 1 908. 



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