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188 GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 



We were digging in the corner by the school wall. After we were dig- 

 ging some water came through the fence. The boys piled leaves on it 

 and tried to stop it. 



f March 16, 1905, To-day we began digging a hole for a cold frame. 

 The hole should be about ten feet long and about three feet in width. 



March 77, 1905. We have tried to fit the frame to 

 he hole. The hole was too small' for the frame so we 

 had to borrow the pickax from the City Fire Engine House 

 again and make it larger. 



We have noticed that the lettuce has come up. It has 

 long leaves like this. It is all green. 



March 21, 1905. To-day we had a large snowstorm that put us back 

 in working on the cold frame. It filled the frame way up. 



March 22, 1905. We had a visitor to-day. It was an alligator. It 

 was sent from Florida to a girl in our room. It was about one foot long. 

 It had a hard back. We jerked the box it was in and it snapped at us. 



March 23, 1905. A boy in our room went over to Mi. Bird's house 

 and asked him for some manure for our cold frame. He said " Yes, 

 would you like the dark or light manure ? " We said, " We would 

 rather have the dark." We brought over four or five loads in the wheel- 

 barrow. The last load was light manure. 



March 24., 1905. This morning some men from the schoolhouse 

 commission were sent to cut off the browntail moths. We had some 

 brought in to be put in a bottle for us to observe them. We have a piece 

 of cheesecloth over the jar. 



March 27, 1905. The tomato plants and the pepper have come up. 

 All of the plants are up. There is only one specimen of pepper up. 



March 28, 1905. The baby caterpillars are out and are crawling 

 around the jar. The moth has not yet come out. 



March 29, 1905. Some boys went over to Wheeler & Brown to get 

 some loam. They are florists. We bought one dollar's worth, which 

 was two barrels. It was brought in a team. One barrel was put in the 

 cold frame and the other under the fourth window. Mr. Brown came 

 in to see the plants in our garden boxes. 



March 29, 1905. This noon two boys went to the pottery to get 

 some flowerpots. The man in the office showed them some pots but 

 they were too large. We then got smaller ones for ten cents a dozen. 

 The pots are three inches in depth and two inches and one half in diam- 

 eter at the top. We bought five dozen. The men gave us eleven extra. 



