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regretting. The story stops then, too. It is a pity, for we 

 should like to know more about the Allston garden, its genial 

 neighbors, and the writer, aged nine. 



SCIENCE DIARY 1 



Septeiiiht-r 2S, igo^. I went out in our garden and observed cater- 

 pillars, mosquitoes, slugs, and other insects. When I was through, I 

 brushed some plants and a lot of mosquitoes flew out. 



Oitoht-r 2S, igo^. To-day we had some men come and make our gar- 

 den larger. They used the adz and the spade. They cleaned our rubbish 

 pile awa)'. 



Oc/olyt-r :>S. 1004. To-day I was getting leaves in Mr. Bird's yard. 

 The other boys were in the garden gathering stones and raking leaves. 



\07'entl>cr J, IQ04. Dr. Field, a professor at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, came to prune our trees. He said, " there are 

 three reasons for pruning CO to make it bear more fruit (2) to make it 

 bear larger and better fruit (3) to make the tree look better." He 

 then showed us his saw. It had a blade on one edge to cut large limbs 

 and a blade on the other edge for cutting small limbs. 



One of our boys climbed up the tree to cut off high limbs, when 

 Dr. Field was here. 



December lO, igo^. I was out in our garden planting grains. We 

 put them in the corner by Mr. Bird's house. The grains were winter 

 wheat, rye, and oats. We also planted some vetch. 



December 20, jgo^. About this time we had some men come to cover 

 our garden with stable manure. 



March 10, IQO^. Mr. Crawford gave us some garden boxes. They 

 had no drainage. We had to make an artificial drainage because the 

 ground would look very muddy. It was made by first putting into the 

 boxes some large stones, then small stones, then crock, then sand 

 and soil. 



We planted some seeds in our garden boxes. They were lettuce, cab- 

 bage, cauliflower, tomato and pepper. The lettuce seed is long and 

 narrow, but is very small. The cabbage seed is round and brown. 

 Some boys of our class with me, were digging sand for our garden boxes. 



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