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success must be planned for and laid out on paper or in 

 the mind long before the actual work of seed time begins. 

 One must determine where the garden is to be, what will 

 grow best in that soil, where and in what amounts the 

 seeds are to be bought, what treatment the soil must re- 

 ceive from start to finish. The tools must be selected 

 and put in working order, and not before all of these 

 things are more or less thought out, should the ground 

 be broken for the garden that is to be. 



THE GARDEN SPOT. 



Many people really believe that almost any place will 

 do for a garden, and it is a pleasant fact that with care 

 plants can be coaxed to grow in the most unpromising 

 spots. Still when preparing to test, for the first time, 

 one's skill as a gardener, it is safest to argue that the best 

 place on the farm is none too good for the garden. Nor 

 is it an indication of the wise farmer when we find the 

 home garden in some out of the way corner where per- 

 haps nothing else could be planted with success. So 

 when there are several places from which to select the 

 ideal garden site, it is well to remember that an eastern 

 or southern exposure is best; that is with a slope facing 

 either of these points of the compass. This land should 

 be well drained; and a rich and somewhat sandy soil 

 should be selected if the best results are to be expected. 

 With the school garden, however, one's choice is neces- 

 sarily somewhat limited, as the lot surrounding the school- 

 house is small and no choice of location is left to the 

 young gardeners. They must take whatever space they 

 can find unoccupied or shaded by buildings and trees and 

 make the best of it. Let us suppose then that the teacher 

 and pupils know just what part of the school premises 

 is at their disposal for gardening purposes, and in order 



