CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



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Theoretical Talks. 



Wheelbarrow Principles of load- 

 ing and using 



Water pot 



Ilandweeder 



Trowel 



How to tie some useful knots... 



Soil What it is. How it is made. 

 Some different kinds. What it 

 supplies to plants. Cultivation of 

 soil. Mulches and their use. 

 Soil drainage. Water in soil. 

 Air in soil. Warmth in soil... 



Manure What it is. Why we 

 add it to garden soil. Draws and 

 holds moisture. Adds warmth 

 and plant food. Carries weed 

 seeds. Increases soil ventilation. 

 Makes acids which break up 

 minerals from which come plant 

 food , 



Seeds Inside and outside. 



Below Ground Roots. How they 

 grow. How they differ from 

 stems. Some underground stems. 



Above Ground Stem. How they 

 grow. How they differ from 

 roots. Some over ground roots. . 



Practical Work. 



Wheeling manure, soil and rub- 

 bish. 



Watering in sun and shade. 



Weeding and loosening soil. 



Transplanting. 



Used in flag raising, doing up 

 bundles, putting up clothes lines, 

 etc. 



Samples collected, and different 

 points noted and talked about day 

 after day in the children's own 

 plots. Effect of different soil 

 conditions noticed in growing 

 plants. 



A large quantity of manure was 

 handled by the children. They 

 wheeled it across the garden, 

 spread four inches deep and 

 spaded it in. on ground 30 by 

 250, as well as a bushel of it 

 spaded into 356 other plots. 



Besides regular planting of their 

 plots, the seeds were dissected 

 and sprouted for study. 



Subjects for these talks were taken 

 from children's plots and weed 

 plots. Beets, etc., and grasses. 



