igo GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 



April 3j, igo^. Last night we soaked some peas in water. I noticed 

 that they have swollen and smoothened out. I have also noticed that 

 the radish in the cold r^ frame has turned red at the bottom. 



May /, igo^. The *-^^^|^^J^ radishes have turned broad at the root. 

 They are this shape. ?iS|f* The plants were very crowded so we 

 had to thin them out. ^jr Some we put next to the peas and the 

 others we thinned out ) in the cold frame. 



May 2, igoj. To-day we transplanted the rest of the tomatoes into 

 the small pots. There were sixteen plants transplanted. 



This is a picture as it is to-day : jS^^^?^ The long leaves are 

 the first leaves and the others are '^^W\ ^ '^'^ ones that have 

 grown since the first had spread. " ' ^^ There are two first 

 leaves and quite a few others. The f' jT ^^ last leaves are jagged 

 and the first are smooth around the ' " edge. 



May ^, /goj. Miss Withington came out to see our garden. It was 

 at recess and we went out in the garden. We planted beets in with 

 the radishes because the radish will be out and the beet takes till fall 

 to be ripe. We then left a path for us to get at the radishes and 

 beets. We then planted onions in two rows. The onion seed is round 

 and black. It is small and has a rough surface. The beet seed is very 

 rough. It is a brownish gray and is about three sixteenths of an inch 

 in diameter. 



We have received a new hose from the janitor. It was put on this 

 noon. 



May 4, igo^. This morning we went out in class sections to trans- 

 plant our cabbage next bed to the onions. The cabbage is six to eight 

 inches high; we planted them to the description of Miss Withington. 

 They were set about twenty inches apart. We then transplanted lettuce 

 in among the cabbage by the Italian method. 



May 4, igo^. This morning I was out in the garden. We each had 

 a garden two feet wide and half the length of the large garden. We 

 had partners which had a garden two feet wide on the other half. 



We planted beans, parsnip, turnip and cucumber. We have two sec- 

 tions, the first section have the odd numbers of the garden and the 

 second the even numbers. I had turnip, cucumber and beans. It was 

 so windy we could not do the planting so Miss Homer planted them and 

 we made the furrows and covered the seeds. The cucumber seed is like 

 this : ^ — ^ The beans look like this ; (^''"^^^^^~\ The turnip is like this : © 

 I did ' not see the parsnip and V^^^jsjiii*^ cannot describe it. 



