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GARDENS AND THEIR MEANING 
April ^5, igo^. Last night we soaked some peas in water. I noticed 
that they have swollen and smoothened out. I have also noticed that 
the radish in the cold ^ frame has turned red at the bottom. 
May I ^ igoy. The radishes have turned broad at the root. 
They are this shape. The plants were very crowded so we 
had to thin them out. y Some we put next to the peas and the 
others we thinned out ) in the cold frame. 
May 2, igoy. To-day we transplanted the rest of the tomatoes into 
the small pots. There were sixteen 
This is a picture as it is to-day : 
the first leaves and the others are 
grown since the first had spread, 
leaves and quite a few others. The 
and the first are smooth around the 
May 2, igoy. Miss Withington came out to see our garden. It was 
at recess and we went out in the garden. We planted beets in with 
the radishes because the radish will be out and the beet takes till fall 
to be ripe. We then left a path for us to get at the radishes and 
beets. We then planted onions in two rows. The onion seed is round 
and black. It is small and has a rough surface. The beet seed is very 
rough. It is a brownish gray and is about three sixteenths of an inch 
in diameter. 
We have received a new hose from the janitor. It was put on this 
noon. 
May 4, igoy. This morning we went out in class sections to trans- 
plant our cabbage next bed to the onions. The cabbage is six to eight 
inches high ; we planted them to the description of Miss Withington. 
They were set about twenty inches apart. We then transplanted lettuce 
in among the cabbage by the Italian method. 
May 4^ igoy. This morning I was out in the garden. We each had 
a garden two feet wide and half the length of the large garden. We 
had partners which had a garden two feet wide on the other half. 
We planted beans, parsnip, turnip and cucumber. We have two sec- 
tions, the first section have the odd numbers of the garden and the 
second the even numbers. I had turnip, cucumber and beans. It was 
so windy we could not do the planting so Miss Homer planted them and 
we made the furrows and covered the seeds. The cucumber seed is like 
this : The beans look like this ; The turnip is like this : q 
I did not see the parsnip and cannot describe it. 
plants transplanted. 
The long leaves are 
the ones that have 
There are two first 
last leaves are jagged 
edge. 
