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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



2.5 



example and change your yard into a thing 

 of beauty and of profit. 



One Season in a Girl's Garden 



MY GARDEN has been one grand suc- 

 cess this season. It has been a 

 mass of flowers from the thirtieth of May 

 until late October. 



April was a very hard month for the 

 amateur gardeners here as the weather 

 was so cold and wet. There were heavy 

 frosts every night until the 2 2d. From 

 the 2 2d to the 30th, the weather was 

 favorable. My hotbed was so crowded 

 that the plants were really spoiling. But 

 I got my coldframe plants transplanted to 

 the garden. This 

 gave me a chance to 

 transplant from the 

 hotbed to the cold- 

 frame. 



The picture of my 

 garden taken in 

 April gives you an 

 idea of the work I 

 had ahead of me. 

 My lily bed with 

 eight varieties of 

 lilies is in the fore- 

 ground, next is the 

 tritoma bed. In 

 front of my cultiva- 

 tor are India pinks, 

 just transplanted 

 from the coldframe. 

 The pile of brush 

 behind the pear tree 

 is for my sweet peas, 

 which are up and 

 looking fine. The 

 card on the apple 

 tree is my business 

 sign. 



The June picture 

 shows my garden at The garden in 



a time when the gar- 

 den supervisor, Miss Miller, visited it. The 

 August picture gives an idea of the beauty 

 of my aster beds. 



I would like to tell you something about 

 all the flowers, a hundred varieties of 

 which I have in my garden. But I will tell 

 you about sweet peas, asters, and salvia. 

 Almost every garden has these flowers. 

 I planted one ounce of sweet peas on 

 February 2 2d. The seed cost me fifteen 

 cents. From these plants I cut 1,000 

 peas in June at fifty cents per hundred, 

 700 in July at thirty cents, and 500 in 

 August at thirty-five cents. So you see I 

 made $8.85 from a fifteen-cent investment 

 in seeds. These were all long stemmed 

 with three and four blossoms on each. 

 You can see the pea vines in the June 

 picture. The vines grew over six feet high ; 

 and I am more than satisfied, as this was my 

 first attempt with sweet peas. 



As for my asters, they were among 

 the best in the city. I had nine varieties. 

 I think Lady Roosevelt and Mary Semple 

 are my favorites. I cut asters measuring 

 five inches across with stems thirty-three 



inches long. 1 took a bunch of one hundred 

 to one of our leading florists, and he offered 

 me a special price for all 1 could furnish 

 him. The picture will give you a fair 

 idea of how they looked in August. 



The salvia more than paid me for the 

 care 1 gave it. 1 sold sixty dozen little 

 plants and put in my garden the eight 

 dozen which 1 had left. The salvia bed 

 was one solid mass of red, standing three 

 feet six inches high and making a magnifi- 

 cent showing. The seed I got from Africa. 

 The flowers are a deeper red and the 

 plants bloom more heavily than any I have 

 ever seen. I have many other flowers 

 that are worthy of mention but I think my 

 asters, peas and salvia were as near per- 



aster time. August. These flowers brought money to 



fection as many of those produced by 

 professionals. 



Cleveland, O. Mabel Jane Musser. 



California's "Garden City" 



ONE acre of ground, plus seeds, plus 

 tools, plus boys and girls, equals good 

 citizenship. This is a mathematical equa- 

 tion worked out less than a year ago on the 

 campus of the University of California. The 

 problem is still reaching a correct solution. 

 This is the plan of our Garden City. 

 Over two hundred children, in age from 

 six to sixteen years, have individual garden 

 plots 6xo ft. on the college campus. As 

 ambition grows more land is given. A 

 space marked "Community Plots" has 

 been given over to illustrate the check 

 system of irrigation. A plot is allotted 

 to a child. Experimental plots are used 

 for experiments in fertilization and irri- 

 gation. We are working out a general 

 scheme of decoration for the garden as a 

 whole so that we shall have a beauty 

 spot as well as a useful one. 



Our plan has been to build around our 

 garden an embryo city. A constitution 

 patterned after Berkeley's charter governs 

 the city. The officers are elected by 

 popular vote. A mayor and six council- 

 men are chosen. These officers are of 

 course children. 



When the gardens are full of vegetables 

 a market is established. Each Wednesday 

 afternoon is given to a mother's market 

 day. With increasing financial friction 

 a bank will be found necessary. Plans 

 are now under way for the erection of a 

 building to house the same. The bank 

 will pay 4 per cent, interest on time de- 

 posits. Thus the embryo city will repeat 

 the civic life history of the race through 

 agriculture, the mar- 

 ket, and the bank. 

 What relation 

 does this Garden 

 City bear to the 

 State? It is the 

 laboratory for Cali- 

 fornia. What can 

 be accomplished 

 there can be done in 

 other places. 



The agricultural 

 education division of 

 the university is try- 

 ing to further liberal 

 agriculture in the 

 elementary school , 

 through the organ- 

 ization of California 

 junior gardening 

 clubs. At the 

 present time we 

 have 2,000 children 

 enrolled in one large 

 agricultural club. 



Several clubs and 

 garden cities have 

 already been started, 

 one schoolgirl The Niles Garden is 



flourishing under 

 Principal Vincent. Decoto, San Deandro; 

 the Washington and Franklin Schools of 

 Oakland; the People's Place, the Parental 

 School in San Francisco; and the Franklin 

 School in Berkeley, are visited regularly by 

 our extension class composed of university 

 students. Besides these, organization has 

 taken place in the Le Conte School of Ber- 

 keley and other schools in the Bay region. 

 Berkeley, Cal. Cyril A. Stebbins, 

 Professor of Agriculture, University of California. 



A Little Girl's Bulb 



I BOUGHT my bulb at school. All the 

 children who wanted to, bought bulbs. 

 I planted mine in a flower pot with soil 

 from the garden. Then I put the flower 

 pot out of doors in the garden. I covered 

 the pot with soil. Eight weeks later I took 

 the pot up and put it in a dark place for 

 a week or so. I watered it every morning. 

 One day I saw the buds. They grew, 

 and grew, and then they came out and they 

 were yellow. I am ten years old. 

 Worcester, Mass. Helen Porter. 



