. Among School Gardens . Spinach, 6 inches high. Plant about April 15th. Lettuce. 9 inches high. Plant about April 15th. Sweet Corn, 6 ft. high. Plant about May xsth. Return this envelope to the teacher, with your money. Do not putmoney in this envelope. No. of packets Amount cents. School Grade No. of Room Your seeds will be delivered in this Envelope about April your garden early in April. Select the sunniest part of youryard, but avoid a place where the drippings from the roof will fall onthe bed. Dig deep—a full foot—and break up the lumps. Soil withwell-rotted manure dug in w
. Among School Gardens . Spinach, 6 inches high. Plant about April 15th. Lettuce. 9 inches high. Plant about April 15th. Sweet Corn, 6 ft. high. Plant about May xsth. Return this envelope to the teacher, with your money. Do not putmoney in this envelope. No. of packets Amount cents. School Grade No. of Room Your seeds will be delivered in this Envelope about April your garden early in April. Select the sunniest part of youryard, but avoid a place where the drippings from the roof will fall onthe bed. Dig deep—a full foot—and break up the lumps. Soil withwell-rotted manure dug in will give better results than poor require good, rich soil. 25 AMONG SCHOOL GARDENS In New England the pioneer work of establish-ing school gardens was, as has been said, begununder the influence of the Massachusetts Horticul-tural Society; and a little later the Massachu-setts Civic League, the Womans Auxiliary of theAmerican Park and Outdoor Art Association,the Twentieth Century Club and the Normal. School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn. School of Boston as well as other clubs, schoolsand village improvement societies throughout thestate, took up the work. In Connecticut, the Rev. Dr. Francis Goodwinin 1900 founded the Hartford School of Horti-culture. The enterprise of the Womens CivicClub of that city, shortly after, started a garden 26
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