. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). CORNELL R^ural ScKool Leaflet [FOR THE TEACHER] Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Otiice at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor Profe


. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). CORNELL R^ural ScKool Leaflet [FOR THE TEACHER] Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from September to May, and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Otiice at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey, Director ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advise'S Vol. 3 ITHACA N. Y., MARCH, 1910 \o. GARDENING "(Tbr unturr-iirHirr mail be ticr^jrlual nnh ratxHtant. but thr garbrn-Jipstrr rrturua untb rurrn nrut sprtngtimr"—L. H. Bailey In March the garden-desire begins to manifest itself and in almost every mind open to the possibili- ties of the multitude of interests in a garden, the anticipation is full of joy. Dean Bailey says: "Sooner or later, every person feels this desire to plant something. It is the return to Eden, the return to ourselves after the long estrange- ment of our artificial lives. One of us dreams of a little patch of orchard bounded by cool grassy banks. Another wants a snug and tidy garden-plat bounded by a wall and a lattice, and at one side a tinker's room of tools, rakes and hoes and watering-cans, and as- sorted sizes of pots, and boxes con- taining string and labels and screws and bits of wire. In this room he would work when the rain falls heavily on the roof and pours across the doorway from the wide-hang- ing eaves. Others want long, trim rows of strawberries, beets and onions, with beds of lettuce, hills of squashes and clumps of hyssoj) and sage in the corners, all ranged and labeled as the bogks on a shelf. Otiiers want tumbling piles of vines shot through with wild asters and the spires of hollyhocks. Still others would


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