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Title: Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Subjects: Horticulture--Periodicals Agriculture--Periodicals
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Contributing Library: Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library
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st came : for big bojfor small boys Daniel Needham won the flrsl prize of four dollars Hehad a tine garden, although he had to plant his corn twice a- it rotted onaccounl of the dampness. Another boj had too much corn in his garden,bo when this corn was two feet high Daniel transplanted sixteenhthree stocks in each hill, and they all lived and bore fruit within ■ month. The Farmers and Mechanics1 Club offered special prizes f->r the Idisplay of vegetables, and <d these 1» Needham t. 260 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Childrens Gardens at West Groton, Mass.These gardens were started in May, 1903, by the Groton Village Im-provement Association. The land was loaned by a citizen and is onehundred feet by fifty feet, and was divided among twelve workers. Thereare many more children who want gardens, and next year we will have
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another one for girls. Results.Thirty dollars were given oy individuals ; ferti-lizers and manure by farmers ; and seed by the U. S. Agricultural Depart-ment, all but corn, beans, potatoes, turnips, and carrots, which I beggedfrom storekeepers and farmers. A good many of the tomatoes wereraised from seed and others were given. HORTICULTURE FOR CHILDREN. 261 The evening primroses were transplanted into the gardens. Ourspecialty is transplanting, and we have tried everything in the garden:sunflowers three feet high; corn two feet high; tomatoes, very large,with almost ripened fruit; squash, in fruit: turnips, parsnips, potatoes,and poppies ; and everything has lived. The children have all their produce to sell, eat, or give away. Oneboy last year supplied his family with vegetables all summer, and Ishould say from all accounts, has done the same this summer. Thelettuce in one boys garden would have netted him three dollars, if sold.The radishes in one girls garden two dollars, beets two

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