136 CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



can be illustrated with radishes if the time is very 

 short, and quite a number of vegetables are available 

 if there are three months of growing weather. To 

 preach neatness and thrift, and illustrate it with neg- 

 lect is poor pedagogy, and borders on immorality. 

 There is no more reason for growing in the child's 

 plot, a vegetable that cannot be harvested until August, 

 when he is to leave it in July, than there is for grow- 

 ing apple trees that take eight years, ' or pine trees 

 that take sixty years. This does not apply to the 

 observation plots for they may have crops that can 

 be harvested when school opens in September, and 

 may well have plants that last from year to year. 



Why these vegetables for child's plot? The vege- 

 tables suggested grow in a short time, arejknv so as 

 not to shade other plots, are hardy, common, well 

 shaped, bright colored, fine flavored, and represent 

 several botanical families. 



Radish Mustard family 



Beans Legume (pulse) family 



Beets Goosefoot family 



Carrots Parsley family 



Lettuce Composite family 



Onions Lily family 



Corn Grass family 



If it is desired to discuss botanical relations some of 

 their relations are, viz. : 



Radish Mustard family 



(Weed) Charlock 



(Flower) Sweet alyssum 



