PLANNING AND PLANTING THE GARDEN 



" I shall be glad to tell you something of our 

 potato field, for as much, if not more, of our in- 

 terest centered there as in the flower garden. 



"The practical problems met in connection with 

 the cultivation of potatoes were considered under 

 three heads. First, the disinfection of seed by 

 the use of formalin, to prevent scab; second, the 

 relative value of different fertilizers, considered 

 with reference to the needs of the soil; and, third, 

 observation of the effects of Bordeaux mixture as 

 a preventative of late blight."* 



in planning and planting a garden, Louise 

 Klein Miller's "Children's Gardens" is extremely 

 useful with reference to all garden work, especially 

 for planning effects, and for suggestions as to 

 nature study. It contains a list of trees for the 

 arboretum, of shrubs for planting, and of ferns for 

 the wild flower garden. For one entirely inex- 

 perienced, H. D. Hemenway's "How to Make 

 School Gardens" is most helpful. It devotes 

 thirty-five out of ninety-six pages to explicit de- 

 tails of planting, arranged in twenty-one lessons. 

 These lessons are as simply told as if they were to 

 be placed on the blackboard for children to copy. 

 The book also includes some account of the 

 common weeds. For work with little children, 

 Frances Duncan's "When Mother Lets Us Gar- 

 den" has many delightful hints. Celia Thaxter's 

 Little Classic, "Peggy's Garden and What Grew 



♦Palmer, S. T.: Vermont Circulars of Educational Information. 

 No. XIII. (Describing school garden at Johnson, Vt.) 



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