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GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 
We were digging in the corner by the school wall. After we were dig- 
ging some water came through the fence. The boys piled leaves on it 
and tried to stop it. 
March i6, igo^. To-day we began digging a hole for a cold frame. 
The hole should be about ten feet long and about three feet in width. 
March 7 /, igo^. We have tried to fit the frame to 
the hole. The hole was too small for the frame so we 
had to borrow the pickax from the City Fire Engine House 
again and make it larger. 
We have noticed that the lettuce has come up. It has 
long leaves like this. It is all green. 
March 21^ igo3- To-day we had a large snowstorm that put us back 
in working on the cold frame. It filled the frame way up. 
Maj'ch 22^ J'goj. We had a visitor to-day. It was an alligator. It 
was sent from Florida to a girl in our room. It was about one foot long. 
It had a hard back. We jerked the box it was in and it snapped at us. 
■ March 2j, igo^. A boy in our room went over to Mi. Bird’s house 
and asked him for some manure for our cold frame. He said ” Yes, 
would you like the dark or light manure?” We said, "We would 
rather have the dark.” We brought over four or five loads in the wheel- 
barrow. The last load was light manure. 
March 24^ igo^. This morning some men from the schoolhouse 
commission were sent to cut off the browntail moths. We had some 
brought in to be put in a bottle for us to observe them. We have a piece 
of cheesecloth over the jar. 
Maixh 2y^ igo^. The tomato plants and the pepper have come up. 
All of the plants are up. There is only one specimen of pepper up. 
March 28, igoj. The baby caterpillars are out and are crawling 
around the jar. The moth has not yet come out. 
MarcJi 2g, igo^. Some boys went over to Wheeler & Brown to get 
some loam. They are florists. We* bought one dollar’s worth, which 
was two barrels. It was brought in a team. One barrel was put in the 
cold frame and the other under the fourth window. Mr. Brown came 
in to see the plants in our garden boxes. 
Ma?'ch 2g^ J^goj. This noon two boys went to the pottery to get 
some flowerpots. The man in the office showed them some pots but 
they were too large. We then got smaller ones for ten cents a dozen. 
The pots are three inches in depth and two inches and one half in diam- 
eter at the top. We bought five dozen. The men gave us eleven extra. 
