INDEX 



Adults, learning to garden, 

 190; small gardens for, 193. 

 Age to teach, 2, 7. 

 Air, 7, 148-151. 

 Anemics, 184. 

 Annoyance, cost of, 20. 

 Attendance, 216. 



B 



Back, straight, 16. 



Backward children, 185. 



Beets, thinning, 123. 



Bellevue Hospital, Children's 

 Garden, 185-186. 



Birds, 118. 



Board, see Marking board, and 

 Spreading board. 



Books, reference, 162, 194. 



Botany, subjects for, 136-137. 



Bottles, for seeds, 37, 42, 43. 



Box, see Hand earner. Saw- 

 dust box, Earthworm box, 

 Seed bottles, Insect mounts. 



Burying stones or logs, 63. 



Butterfly net, 50. 



preface ; purpose of, preface ; 



a laboratory, 3; for public 



instruction, 173-174. 

 Civic training, 33, 127, 212; see 



Public service. 

 Comenius, John Amos, 174. 

 Convalescents, 184. 

 Co-operation, 175. 

 Cooling, with water, etc., 154. 

 Corn, 125. 



Costs, tools, 199; garden esti- 

 mates, 200-201. 

 Courage, 7. 

 Cripples, 184. 

 Crops, 97-106, 21 1 ; cover crop, 



126, special, 105, farm, 105. 

 Cultivating stick, 37, 40; use 



of, in. 



Danger, cost of, 20. 



Day camp, values, 210. 



Deficients, 185. 



DeWitt Clinton Park, report 



of Director, 1908, 202. 

 Diary, 37, 49, 50, 109. 

 Don ts, 107. 

 Dry farming, 124. 



Cart, 63. 



Center bed, 75. 



Child's plot, plan of, 89. 



Children, educational needs of, 



i, 31. 

 Children's Gardens, how old, 



Earthworms, 165; what they 

 teach us, 167. 



Economy, in transportation, 

 ii ; by planning, 13, 18; by 

 body position, 17; of per- 



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