SOME LAST THINGS 



flowers. "Here I have found a joy in life," he 

 said. Later, as his infirmity grew upon him, he 

 learned to note the habits of insects and then to 

 mount them so well that he became self-support- 

 ing by the work. Children who start home gar- 

 dens frequently become enthusiasts. One eleven- 

 year-old boy would allow no one else to pick a 

 single flower in his garden, but he daily pro- 

 vided each member of his family with one of his 

 treasures. When two boys from three stocks of 

 rhubarb got enough for their mother to make 

 "many pies and thirty-three glasses of jelly and 

 five quarts of rhubarb preserves" they felt satis- 

 fied; they were proud because they had a goodly 

 yield of other vegetables, including ten bushels of 

 tomatoes from fifteen vines on a lo x 12 foot plot. 

 When a certain school garden had to be closed, 

 228 requests came asking that another might 

 be opened. Numbers of girls and boys, through 

 the garden have found the work they want to 

 do in life and have set themselves to mastering 

 its details. One child in her composition is 

 spokesman for many: 



Why Do 1 Like to Work in the School Garden 

 We have great fun at the school garden every 

 morning about eight o'clock. 



We enjoy the sun-shine and we don't mind if it 

 rains because it makes the plants grow. 



I like to make and plant the beds and see the 

 things come up. 



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