APPENDIX 231 



EXERCISES SUITABLE FOR YOUNG GARDENERS 



A number of experimental beds were planted at one school ' 

 as follows : 



(a) Crimson clover, — to illustrate the immediate effect of pollen 

 on fruit. 



(b) Pea vine, the successive crops spaded in, — to study the pea 

 vine as a nitrogen collector. 



(c) Pea vine, the successive crops gathered and the vines pulled 

 up, — to observe the poverty of the soil in nitrogen. 



(d) Peas treated with a chemical fertilizer, — to compare these 

 crops with those of (p) and (c). 



(e) Cabbage, kale, kohl-rabi, collards, cauliflower, and brussels 

 sprouts, — to show the variation obtained from the ancestral cab- 

 bage by cultivation. 



(/) Corn for several successive years, to illustrate deterioration 

 in crops through exhaustion of the soil. 



(g) Flax. 



(h) Grains. 



(z) Strawberry patch. 



BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS 



Boys' and girls' agricultural clubs are being organized on all 

 sides for corn, cotton, and potato growing and for live-stock study, 

 bird study, and home culture. All of these clubs are more or less 

 agricultural in their general character. Such a club is an associa- 

 tion of young people who enter into competition to determine which 

 can grow the largest or the best crop on a certain area of ground, 

 according to definite rules for the planting, cultivation, and exhibit 

 of their product. These clubs have, above all, developed in boys 

 and girls initiative and the power of assuming responsibility. 



Collectively they have learned the value of organized effort, of 

 cooperation, and of compromise ; and the social instinct has been 



1 Rice School, Boston. 



