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Title: Land teaching; a handbook of soils, plants, gardens and grounds, for teachers and cultivators
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Stockbridge, Horace Edward, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga., Southern ruralist company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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many plantscan stand outdoor conditions during the winter without seriousinjury, school gardening can be successfully carried on during theentire year. When the period opens in the fall, the soil should be fertilizedand well prepared, then the pupils may set violets, plant narcissusbulbs, and fall onions. Sow such seeds as winter radishes, spinach,lettuce and endive. These vegetables will endure ordinary frost, and some of them willremain in good condition, and ready for use, in the open garden allduring the winter. A little later in the fall, say about the 10th of October, it may bewell to sow cabbage seed in the open garden, in order to have plantsfor early spring setting. Sweet peas may also be sown, ratheraeeply and continuous in the drill, for early spring blooming. Fall-sown sweet peas may be expected to bloom a month earlier thanspring-sown peas. The fall season being the best time to sow lawn grasses, it Is wellfor the teacher to have the pupils design walks, locate places in
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LAND TEACHING. 73 which to set trees, prepare the soil and sow grass seeds for thelawn, thus giving them some practice in landscaping, as well as theregular school garden work. HOTBEDS AND COLDFRAMES. By the proper construction and management of hotbeds and cold-frames vegetables and flowers may be successfully grown during theentire winter. The sash for covering these frames may often besecured, at little or no cost, from some patron of the school, whomay have old sash removed from a building. For structure andmanagement, Professor J. rS. Newman, in his Southern GardenersPractical Manual, says: Excavate to the depth of eight inches anarea three feet three inches wide by five feet eight inches long.(As many of these as is necessary for the school may be made inone continuous bed, letting the long way of the sash extend acrossthe bed.) Fill this excavation with fermenting stable manure andgreen cotton seed mixed in equal parts, moisten it and stamp downsmoothly, moisten the material as

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