AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS 



But coming to the school garden on a hot sum- 

 mer's day, the sight of a luxuriant growth of weeds 

 may banish all their uses from our minds. Our 

 mental attitude shifts and our only thought is of 

 extermination. Many of our plant pests, par- 

 ticularly those of foreign importation, multiply 



WooDBERY Garden, Baltimore. The Lot Before Cultivation 



SO rapidly that they sometimes take over en- 

 tire fields. They love the land of room and 

 liberty. 



Children love the black-eyed Susan or Dutch 

 daisy and the white or ox-eyed daisy. Honesty 

 compels us to count them among the farmer's 

 worst enemies along with sorrel, wild mustard, 



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