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regretting. The story stops then, too. It is a pity, for we 
should like to know more about the Allston garden, its genial 
neighbors, and the writer, aged nine. 
SCIENCE DIARY 1 
September 28, igo4. I went out in our garden and observed cater- 
pillars, mosquitoes, slugs, and other insects. When I was through, I 
brushed some plants and a lot of mosquitoes flew out. 
October 28^ igo4. To-day we had some men come and make our gar- 
den larger. They used the adz and the spade. They cleaned our rubbish 
pile away. 
October 28, igo^.. To-day I was getting leaves in Mr. Bird’s yard. 
The other boys were in the garden gathering stones and raking leaves. 
November j>, igo4. Dr. Field, a professor at the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, came to prune our trees. He said, " there are 
three reasons for pruning (i) to make it bear more fruit (2) to make it 
bear larger and better fruit (3) to make the tree look better.” He 
then showed us his saw. It had a blade on one edge to cut large limbs 
and a blade on the other edge for cutting small limbs. 
One of our boys climbed up the tree to cut off high limbs, when 
Dr. Field was here. 
December 10^ igo4. I was out in our garden planting grains. We 
put them in the corner by Mr. Bird’s house. The grains were winter 
wheat, rye, and oats. We also planted some vetch. 
December 20, igo4. About this time we had some men come to cover 
our garden with stable manure. 
March 10^ igo^. Mr. Crawford gave us some garden boxes. They 
had no drainage. We had to make an artiflcial drainage because the 
ground would look very muddy. It was made by first putting into the 
boxes some large stones, then small stones, then crock, then sand 
and soil. 
We planted some seeds in our garden boxes. They were lettuce, cab- 
bage, cauliflower, tomato and pepper. The lettuce seed is long and 
narrow, but is very small. The cabbage seed is round and brown. 
Some boys of our class with me, were digging sand for our garden boxes. 
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