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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1909 



T l I I I I l | 



"I wish that I 

 had bought 

 Amatite Roofing 

 It needs no 

 Painting." 



WHY should you buy a roofing that 

 needs to be painted every little 

 while to keep it tight, when, for the 

 same money or less, you can buy 

 Amatite which needs no painting ? 



Amatite is waterproofed with Coal 

 Tar Pitch — the greatest water proofs 

 ing material known. Water can't get 

 through it. It gives the kind of protec- 

 tion that only the ideal roof can give. 



The outer surface is composed of 



real mineral matter, which makes 

 painting unnecessary. 

 Can you imagine a better combi- 

 nation for a good, serviceable, econom- 

 ical roofing than coal tar pitch and a 

 real mineral wearing surface? 



With an Amatite Roof on your 

 buildings you end your roofing trou- 

 bles. When you buy a roofing that 

 requires frequent painting you begin 

 them. 



Smooth surfaced roofings that re- 

 quire painting are a nuisance and an 

 expense. When you buy them you 

 buy trouble — not protection. 



FREE SAMPLE 



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 of Amatite so that you can look it 

 over. We know that anyone who 

 will examine the proposition will buy 

 Amatite ten times out of ten. We 

 should be glad to send you this 

 sample and booklet immediately. 

 Write to nearest office. 



Ba.rrett MaLiwifaLctviring Com.pa.ny 



NEW YORK 

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The Vacation Problem in School 

 Gardening 



MANY teachers have been deterred from 

 starting school gardens by not being able 

 to devise a plan that would insure the success of 

 a garden in vacation time. 



At the Whittier Practice School of Hampton 

 Institute, which contains two hundred beds, each 

 cared for by two children, the volunteer system 

 by which the children get the product of their own 

 labor has been found to work well. The most 

 important factor in the success of this system is 

 the production during the summer of sufficient 

 crops of vegetables and flowers to make the volun- 

 teer workers feel that it is worth while to spend 

 some of their play time in the garden. 



In order to make this possible, it is necessary to 

 plan very carefully what crops shall succeed each 

 other in order to mature at the proper times. This 

 was done for the Whittier garden and the 150 

 volunteers who came on Mondays to weed and 

 cultivate and harvest were able to supply their 

 families during the entire season with produce 

 from the school garden, while many of them had 

 vegetables to sell. 



The number of workers decreased from week 

 to week, not from any lack of interest but because 

 many of the children were obliged to find remun- 

 erative work. Seventy-five continued to the end 

 and worked with pleasure and even enthusiasm. 



A school garden in vacation is sure to fail if the 

 teacher, when school closes, simply asks for volun- 

 teers for vacation gardening and then dismisses the 

 matter by saying that he hopes these volunteers 

 will persevere to the end, and that he will see the 

 garden in good shape when school opens in the 

 fall. It is necessary for an older person who 

 lives in the vicinity and has some knowledge of 

 gardening, to meet the children regularly once a 

 week, assign them work, and remain with them 

 until it is done. This supervision can easily be 

 done by any teacher or by one of the older boys 

 or girls, or even by an interested mother or father 

 of some of the pupils. It is desirable to have a 

 little work done in the garden every day because, 

 since it does not always rain on Sunday, mulches 

 can not always be made on Monday. 



There was a lawn at one end of the Whittier 

 garden and this had to be kept trimmed. Again, the 

 weeds grew so fast that a weekly weeding did not 

 suffice. Two Hampton Institute boys, students 



Illustrating the necessity of supervision. A paid 

 worker was in attendance every day, because the 

 children worked this garden only on Monday 

 mornings 



