THE YOUNG FARMER’S ALMANAC 
189 
March 2g^ 190^^ To-night some children stayed after school to trans- 
plant the tomato. The pots were filled with loam. There was only one 
tomato in each pot because the pots are small and the plants will grow 
large. We had seventy-one pots in all and fifty-four tomatoes. We 
have seventeen empty pots. 
March ji, igoj. To-day we finished our cold frame. In the morn- 
ing some of the boys planted seeds in it. The seeds were lettuce and 
radish. The lettuce 
seed is long, narrow -r 
and black. The ; 
radish is round and . ; 
of a reddish brown ■ 
color. The seeds ! 
were planted in i 
furrows about a 
quarter of an inch deep. The furrows were three inches apart. This 
picture is a plan of the cold frame showing how the furrows were made. 
The boys planted radish in the cold frame nearest to the corner of 
the portable. The lettuce seed was planted further along in the cold 
frame toward the wall. 
In the afternoon the janitor put on the glass windows for us. The 
boys watered the seeds, after they had been covered over with the soil 
and we left them to grow up during our two weeks’ vacation. 
This afternoon Miss Withington came out. We read some of our 
diaries to her and she liked them very much. We showed her our cata- 
logues. At three o’clock we went out in our garden and scratched off 
the old manure off of the crocuses and tulips. 
To-day we also raked a part of the large garden. It was the part near 
the corner between the school and the portable. 
April 10, igoj. When we came back in vacation we noticed the 
crocuses had come up. They have a bright yellow color. The tulips 
have come up but have no flowers. They have come up about two 
inches in height. 
The plants in our cold frame are up. They are radish and lettuce. 
We have two boys that tend to the cold frame and open it in the morn- 
ing and close it at night. I am the one to see that the cold frame is well 
watered. 
The pepper has come up indoors. The grains out in the garden have 
come up. They are wheat, rye, and oats. We planted them last fall. 
