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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
JUNE, 1916 
Bamboo Stakes 
Invaluable for staking Herbaceous 
Plants, Gladioli, Lilies. Strong and 
DURABLE, do not decay like wooden 
stakes or Southern cane. 
NATURAL COLOR 
Japan 
25, 50 100 1000 
6 feet long $.40 $ .75 $1.25 $10.00 
8 feet long 15 1.25 2.25 17.50 
GREEN COLORED INVISIBLE BAMBOO 
25 50 100 1000 
2feetlong $.25 $ .40 $ .65 $ 5.00 
3 feet long 35 .60 1.15 7.50 
4 feet long A5 75 1.25 10.00 
5 feet long -50 85 1.50 12.00 
: VERY HEAVY BAMBOO 
‘Suitable for Dahlias, Tomato Bushes, or wherever STRONG support is 
needed. (NATURAL COLOR). I2 50 100 
6 feet long, tol inchdiameter $1.50 $6.00 $10.00 
8 feet long, } to 1} inch diameter 2.00 8.00 15.00 
Bamboo is much used for Japanese Gardens, Bridges, Kiosks, etc. 
H. H. BERGER & CO., 70 Warren St., New York 
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Gardening for Young Folks 
Conducted by Ellen Eddy Shaw 
$4000 in One Season 
le year_the Government lent its aid in 
making Lincoln, Nebraska, a demonstra- 
tion city and sent a representative to assist 
and direct the work. Children were asked to 
secure such ground as they could find and those 
who could find none were assisted by a Com- 
mittee who secured lots and rented to the chil- 
dren at a fair rate to inculcate the spirit of in- 
dependence. Hach child registered in one of 
two classes. In what we designated as Class I 
were the flower gardens and vacant lot gardens, 
and in Class II were the vegetable gardens. 
Kach member of this class kept an account of 
all expenses and all vegetables used or sold, 
and in the fall presented, for English credit, 
his account and a composition with pictures 
or illustrations. These were also taken into 
consideration in awarding the prizes. A leader 
from among the patrons of each school was 
chosen for each group of twenty children to 
meet with them as a club for a study of diffi- 
culties and to visit the gardens and offer sug- 
gestions or help. Two hundred interested 
atrons from all parts of the city acted as 
judges during the summer, visited the gardens 
a number of times and awarded $400 in cash 
prizes. This money was donated by the Com- 
mercial Club and the Woman’s Club. There 
were last year about 1,000 home gardens thus 
cared for and the sum total earned by the chil- 
dren from their gardens was reported as 
amounting to $4,000. 
In addition to the home garden work, each 
school secured such lots as were available and 
made a choice of what should be raised, re- 
serving a space to be used by the Government 
representative as a demonstration plot for to- 
matoes. Most of the schools raised vegetables 
and these were marketed under the direction 
of a Garden Supervisor. During the summer 
a public city market was conducted by the chil- 
dren where the vegetables, flowers, and poultry 
from the home and school gardens were sold 
and the children trained in business methods. 
All vegetables not sold were taken to a school 
kitchen, and a canning demonstration was con- 
ducted by an instructor from the University 
State Farm. 
At the McKinley School Garden, in almost 
the centre of the city, the lot secured was un- 
sightly; but the children, with great enthu- 
siasm, cleared away the rubbish and brought 
from home, or any source available, boxes and 
paper sacks of good soil to fill up the low, poor 
parts which were covered with ashes. A small 
part was set aside for the demonstration plot 
and the rest was planted in flowers to make a 
beauty spot in the centre of the city. The space 
was divided into small beds and an equal num- 
ber given to each grade in school. In this way 
each child had a personal share in one bed, as 
well as a sense of responsibility for the whole. 
It has been our aim primarily to train the 
children in civic pride and industry and make 
the cleaning up and improvement of all lots 
and vacant spaces a part of the gardening idea. 
After these five years of effort many citizens 
declare that it is now possible to raise flowers 
without danger of molestation, and to preserve 
lawns heretofore carelessly run across, and that 
this is due to a growing civic pride and to the 
realization upon the part of the children of 
what a garden means. 
Anna BretHuNeE, McKinley School. 
A Garden Blackboard 
NE summer we had turned over for use as 
a children’s garden what in a previous 
decade had been a fine old city mansion with a 
small formal garden and, beyond it, a long 
grassy stretch. The latter we turned under for 
the children’s plots. We unearthed again the 
aths and boundaries of the formal garden, fill- 
ing it once more with color. Just to the north 
of it and at the rear of the big house, whose 
half demolished conservatory we used for a tool 
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room, were large trees for our mid-morning 
talk, for our table for observation work, sup- 
plies, and divers uses. 
We tidied everything up but about 400 square 
feet of wall space of the lower story of the 
rear of the house, where broken conservatory 
glass and rotting clapboards made a disgrace- 
ul condition that spoilt the whole effect of our 
garden. The cost of repairing it was not to be 
thought of! 
We pondered the location of windows, of the 
worst blotches, and our need of a large and 
unobtainable blackboard. For the latter we 
bought shelf oilcloth, fifty-six inches wide, sev- 
eral small paint brushes and two cans of dark 
green house paint. We asked for a contribu- 
tion of old rags and several ounces of turpen- 
tine or kerosene oil (for future erasures) if 
need be. We covered three small wall spaces, 
3 it. by 4 ft.8 in. (the width of thecloth) and one 
greater of 12 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in. Thus we had an 
astonishingly neat looking wall space, a black- 
board which the children delighted to embel- 
lish, and where “Facts to Remember” withstood 
any weather. 
numbers and names of the plot owners and two 
anels for “Lists of Weeds” and “Flower 
riends and Foes,” which were inscribed as we 
met them. 
As the children came but twice a week, we 
did not start the blackboard or chart until we 
had acquired considerable information to which 
we could jin the day’s advance lesson and the 
children deduce the facts they were to paint 
upon the chart. The chart was from the chil- 
dren, by the children, for the children, to jog 
their memories, and to etch upon their minds 
in systematic order the main facts of their sum- 
mer in the garden. 
M. Louisrt GREENE, New Haven, Conn. 
A Local Rural Problem 
Y SCHOOL is situated one mile and a half 
from Parkhill in the province of Ontario. 
The soil in the school ground is rather a light 
loam. This year I am treating oats for smut, 
showing the pupils how it is done and then 
sowing another plot not treated this way. The 
reason I am dealing with smut is this: that it 
is of vital interest in this community. Last 
year a great deal of harm was done by the smut 
in oats, and this year I am trying to get the 
parents, through the scholars, interested in the 
treatment for smut. I also have a large num- 
ber of useful bulletins, which I send out to the 
homes for the parents to read and study. 
CarL RITCHIE. 
Nova Scotia Garden Work 
F' years, school garden work was attempted 
in Nova Scotia in widely separated districts. 
Each school worked by itself. The teacher was 
visited and assisted occasionally by a govern- 
ment official; but she knew comparatively little 
of what a fellow teacher was doing in some 
other district. 
Under newer organization, however, the 
movement is now quite general. Out of 2,500 
teachers in the province, 150 have taken a spe- 
cial course in gardening, and are carrying the 
propaganda to new districts. 
We are trying the experiment, in general, of 
home gardens first. After the children have 
acquired an interest there, they are ready to 
care for the school garden during the summer 
vacation. The school garden has always 
started well in the spring; but by mid-summer 
it was a neglected patch of weeds. The children 
had not become interested. 
They became interested in the home garden 
largely through the school exhibition. In 1914 
we had 700 home gardens under school super- 
vision. In 1915 we had 2,000 home gardens 
under school supervision. In 1916 we shall 
have 3,000 home gardens under school super- 
vision. 
L. A. DE WotFs, Truro, Nova Scotia. 
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