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Title: Among School Gardens
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, M. Louise
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Publisher: New York : Charities Publication Committee
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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rdsurface, tiny seeds, blown by the wind ordropped by the birds, take root. Each plantas it lives and dies helps to form new soil untilat last in the ledge of rock a tiny tree seedlingmay start and shoot upward, finding a fissure orcrack through which to make its way; and thus bythe roots which it pushes down in search of water,and the trunk which it urges upward in order thatits leaves may get air and light, forces the rockapart. The story of the dropped seed suggests otherrainy day talks upon seed travelers, stories whichare told in many of the nature books that are nowbefore the public. Such suggestions are foundalso in Cornell leaflets, and in Nos. 2, 4, and 10of the Hampton Teachers Leaflets procurableat 5 cents each. The natural development ofmany seeds comes so late in garden work that itmay be well to antedate their season with sometalks about them to fill in the days before thefirst of the little farmers harvests arrive. Later,there may be reviews and special studies. Ex- 186
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AFTER PLANTING, WHAT? periments showing the exterior and interior ofseeds, their outer and inner coats, their variousembryonic development, the pattern of the tinyplant, as well as its store of food for the seedlings,suggest themselves. The vitality of seeds fur-nishes many useful stories. So, too, do lessons onthe different kinds of roots, these latter to bereviewed as the various root crops are harvested.Lessons on branching, budding and plant develop-ment generally, come naturally as talks while thecrops are up and growing. Brief cooking lessonswill suggest themselves when there are things totake home to eat. Some specimens of plants that are cultivated inthe vegetable gardens for their roots or leaves,must be allowed either there or in the observationplots to go to seed so as to show that they com-plete the round allotted to all plant life. In theobservation plots, however, the weed seeds must notbe allowed to ripen. Some of the seeds gatheredfrom last years field and pasture may

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