. Among School Gardens . t of a conscious life, and topush and shove and scramble for place like a hard-headed, thick-skinned, piratical crew.—S. D. Kirkham. SCARCELY thirteen years ago John Bur-roughs in a chapter on a Bunch of Herbsmade an interesting sub-division, Weeds,and in the long list, as he calls it, 42 were the United States Department of Agri-culture issues a set composed of 100 samples ofweed seeds—those most commonly found in thecommercial seeds of cultivated plants. It isintended for the use of educational institutionsand seedsmen in identifying seeds by compari-son.
. Among School Gardens . t of a conscious life, and topush and shove and scramble for place like a hard-headed, thick-skinned, piratical crew.—S. D. Kirkham. SCARCELY thirteen years ago John Bur-roughs in a chapter on a Bunch of Herbsmade an interesting sub-division, Weeds,and in the long list, as he calls it, 42 were the United States Department of Agri-culture issues a set composed of 100 samples ofweed seeds—those most commonly found in thecommercial seeds of cultivated plants. It isintended for the use of educational institutionsand seedsmen in identifying seeds by compari-son. Considered as the bane of a school gardena large proportion of these weeds may be omitted;not because they are not bold robbers of rich soilbut because many of them belong to specialareas of our country, and in their local haunts areas well known as is the dandelion everywhere. Ifthey occur in the school garden it will be as iso-lated individuals or as a plant colony, and prob- 203 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS .-e»-<^i,. First Years Growth of YellowDock ably come up in the sample plot according to the seed that has beensown and that seedsmost intimate school gardensof from 5 to 10 acreswhere the sampleplots are of consider-able size, or in gar-dens connected withagricultural schoolsor colleges, the weedswould beimmediatelyrecognized by the trained teachers in agriculturewho are usually in charge. If they occur in the cityschool garden orthe small ruralone, they are ofteneasily placed as totheir name and his-tory by a carefulstudy of the crop inwhich they local conditionssupply no oppor-tunities for thiskind of research,and helpful bulle-tins cannot be had from either Washington or theState Experiment Station, the weed will be iden-tified if sent to the latter. Moreover, your sample 204
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