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CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



Thus the division is made, and out of the multitude of 

 things to which time and attention may be given in the 

 garden, try and select those that will be the most val- 

 uable when learned. 



Photo by Brown Bros. 



Watching an insect at work 



Birds. Soon the birds will begin to come, even in a 

 city garden robins, thrushes, bluebirds, swallows 

 and other feathered friends, and usually a great many 

 English sparrows, whose friendly work is too often 

 counterbalanced by the damage they do us. The Gov- 

 ernment will furnish all who apply with good bulletins 

 telling of each of these, and there is so much of it that 

 is interesting that the teacher should constantly put this 

 test upon what he is going to teach : " Is this the 



