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Portion of Home School Garden Club Market, Lincoln, 

 Nebraska Frontispiece 



1. Produce from One Child's Plot in One Season 6 



2. Preparing a Waste Lot for Gardening, Cleveland 12 



3. The Same Lot made into a Good Garden by Two Boys 12 



4. Vacant Land Gardening in Portland, Oregon 18 



5. Back Yard Gardening by a Poor Boy 19 



6. His First Garden and One of the First in His Neighborhood . . 20 



7. The Garden is all Her Own, But She is Glad to Furnish Produce 



for the Family Table 20 



8. An Unsightly Dumping Ground 22 



9. The Same Ground Made into a Productive Garden 22 



10. The Whole Neighborhood is Interested in the Improvement 



and the Profits 22 



11. Work of the Playground Association of Pittsburgh, Pa 24 



12. Plan for a Home Garden 28 



13. Plan for One-acre Rural School Grounds with Garden Plots 



at End Opposite Main Road 29 



14. Large Plots may be Assigned to Older Pupils, Small Beds to 



Little People. 30 



15. Planting Plan for the Improvement of Rural School Grounds . 31 



16. Plan for Rural School Grounds of Two Acres or More 31 



17. WiUard School Farm, Cleveland 32 



18. One of the Philadelphia Garden Association's Garden Farms . . 33 



19. Roof Utihzed for Gardening 39 



20. The Spading-fork, Rake and Hoe, the Simplest Garden Outfit 42 



21. An Inexpensive Hand Cultivator 42 



22. Hand Weeder, Pruning Shears, Trowel and Two Forms of 



Dibbers 42 



23. A Simple Marker for Garden Rows 44 



24. A Handy Winder for Garden Lines 45 



25. Form of One-horse Cultivator 46 



26. A Hotbed of Suitable Size for a Home Garden 49 



27. A Coldf rame with a Cloth Cover 50 



28. Transplanting in a Coldframe 50 



29. Head Lettuce Grown in Coldframe 51 



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