There is just time (but none to waste) to start a school Sow seeds carefully and not too Make the seed bed of fine soil, and rake off all lumps, 

 garden, and the more workers the better thickly. Plants want room stones, etc., making it quite level too 



Cfrilbren's <&arDens €berj>to|)ere 



Conducted by ELLEN EDDY SHAW 

 SCHOOL GARDENS — HOME GARDENS — COMPETITIVE PLANTING 



THIS little lad 

 holds the garden 

 line. So do we. He 

 has been helping his 

 brother stake out the 

 garden. Children's 

 gardens are the line 

 this page holds out. 

 We hold one end of 

 it and offer the other 

 to you. 



Our end is to offer 

 help, showing children 

 how to make the best 

 use of whatever spaces they have for planting, 

 arranging the most pleasing color schemes 

 for flower gardens, suggesting simple tools 

 and pieces of apparatus they may make, 

 proposing tests and experiments with soils,, 

 and showing how to make unsightly spots 

 beautiful. 



Your end is to tell- us of your work, to 

 send us pictures of the garden work you 

 have done and to let us help you if you need 

 help, to tell us of good pieces of manual 

 training work easy to construct. ,. " 



School Gardens - 



IF YOU have started your garden suppose 

 you take some pictures showing just what 

 you have done. Then take some in the fall 

 showing what was the result of your garden 

 work. You may like to send your pictures 

 in to us so that other schools and other chil- 

 dren may get some help from you. The 

 November number of this magazine will 

 publish pictures of school gardens. Yours 

 may be there. 



How have you planned to care for your 

 school garden this summer? That is a 

 problem. If you have a good plan thought 

 out write us about it. If you wish help 

 write to this department and a way will be 

 suggested. 



Home Gardens 



\ 7S7"HY not plant in your own back yard 

 » * this year ? It is the best place of all 

 to plant in. A number of boys and girls 

 have started already. It is not too late 

 now. If you don't know the best things to 

 plant we will help you. 



Keep a record of your work like this: 



RECORD FOR GARDEN WORK 



Name of plant 

 Date of planting . 

 Condition of soil . 

 Fertilizer used 

 First appearance of plant 

 Growth in inches per week 

 Date of blooming . 

 Date of fruiting 



Nasturtium 

 June 15th. 

 Garden soil, clayey 

 Barnyard dressing 

 June 25th. 

 ^ inch, 1 inch, etc. 

 August 25 th. 

 September 4th. 

 (Signed), John Adams 



Print this record (which is filled out to show 

 you how to use it), on a good stiff card. 

 Fill it in week by week. It will help you 

 in your planting next year. Then, too, 

 you might send it in to us with pictures or 

 with specimens of your flowers or vegetables. 

 The results may be published, or win 

 prizes ; or, better yet, help someone else in 

 planting. 



Try to make your backyard as beautiful 

 as possible this summer. There was a certain 

 boy in a city who 

 made a wretched 

 back-yard blossom 

 all the fall with 

 asters. That was 

 worth while. 



If you have an 

 ugly fence or an old, 

 unsightly building, 

 cover it with vines. 

 Running nastur- 

 tiums, morning 

 glories, and cucum- 

 ber vines grow 

 easily and quickly. 

 Old-fashioned, big 



Plant a few seeds in the yard and have beautiful 

 flowers when summer comes 



sunflowers and hollyhocks stretch them- 

 selves tall enough to cover much. 



Shall we tell one another this year the gar- 

 den work we do, and what success we have ? 



Competitive Planting 



'"pO ALL boys and girls The Garden 

 ■*- Magazine proposes to offer prizes for 

 best flowers and vegetables grown either in 

 school or home gardens. Products or pictures 

 of the same may be sent to the Children's 

 Gardens Editor, at the office of the magazine, 

 any time during the fall. Awards will be made 

 and the list of competitors and prize-winners 

 printed in the November issue, if possible. 



A Challenge 



HPHE following letter has been received 



-■- from one schoolboy gardener, who in 



some way had heard of the plans of the 



magazine. We hope other children will 



answer. 



/ challenge any boy or girl in any school 

 to raise pumpkins with me. 



I am going to send a picture o f the largest 

 pumpkin I raise to the Garden Magazine 

 next fall. Will you do the same? 



I am not going to 

 tell the name of my 

 seed, but the pump- 

 kin this seed came 

 from weighed from 

 seventy-five to one 

 hundred pounds. 



Can you do as 

 well as that? 



Elliott Thomas, 



Grade VI, Train- 

 ing Department of 

 the State Normal 

 School, New Paltz 



N.Y. 



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