Gardening and Farming

About this eBook

Author

Shaw, Ellen Eddy, 1874-1960

Title

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Stephen Schulze and the PG Online Distributed Proofreaders Team

Language

English

LoC Class

SB: Agriculture: Plant culture

Subject

Gardening -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

13537

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13537

Release Date

September 27, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Library of Work and Play — GARDENING AND FARMING — BY
2. 2.ELLEN EDDY SHAW — 1911
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.PART I—THE GARDEN CLUB
6. 6.I — THE GARDEN CLUB
7. 7.II — THE BOYS' GARDEN DIFFICULTIES
8. 8.III — THE GIRLS' SECRET
9. 9.IV — GARDEN EXPERIMENTS PERFORMED INDOORS — PETER'S GERMINATING TABLE — GEORGE'S TABLE — MYRON'S SEED-ESTIMATE TABLE
10. 10.V — THE WORKSHOP END OF THE GARDEN — PETER'S OUTDOOR PLANTING TABLE — DRAWING I — DRAWING II — DRAWING III — DRAWING IV — This very simple plan of a garden, used by The Chief, has in it the essentials for all your garden plan drawing. Follow each step as the boys did and you will be able to make a drawing of your own garden. — A sturdy dibber. This needs no directions for the making. The cut tells the story. — WORKING SKETCH OF HOTBED Jack's working drawing of his hotbed. This was to serve for a coldframe temporarily. — A heavy stake like this one, Jack used in marking off his drills. It is adapted to just such work. — Made of hard wood this reel will last forever. — This looks like a pretentious piece of woodwork for a lad to make. George did not think so. The construction is simple. Note the good lines.
11. 11.VI — WHAT THE GIRLS MADE WINTER EVENINGS — PATTERN FOR SEED ENVELOPE Katharine made this seed envelope of rather stiff paper So it was of real service — Such labels as these, made of thin wood, serve as plant labels as well as being useful in the outdoor garden. — Josephine's box had too limited a drainage area — Make a flat like this one of Eloise's and so provide plenty of drainage space — This is the basket made and used by Katharine. It is a gathering basket just right for fruit and short-stemmed flowers — Gnomon pattern just one-half actual size — A pot-rest like the above is worth making because it lasts — From the ruler you can read off the exact size of the jardinière — Helena used a scale of ½ inch in the construction of this jardinière So the plan is very easy to work from
12. 12.VII — IMPROVING THE SCHOOL GROUNDS
13. 13.VIII — MYRON'S STRAWBERRY BED — Photographs by Edward Mahoney — The Way the Chief Taught His Boys to Handle Tools — The crosses show where Myron set the strawberry plants. The dotted lines signify the plantings of succession crops
14. 14.IX — JACK'S ALL-ROUND GARDEN
15. 15.X — ALBERT AND JAY'S DRAINAGE PROBLEM. — Photograph by H.L. Schultz — Jay's Tile Drain Converted a Swamp Into a Garden
16. 16.XI — GEORGE'S CABBAGE TROUBLES — Picture this as the ditch George dug right above his garden. The water passed through the side slopes away from the garden.
17. 17.XII — PETER, POTATOES, AND PROFIT
18. 18.XIII — PHILIP'S BACKYARD — Photograph by Mary H. Northend. — Philip's Backyard Made Beautiful by Annuals and Quick-growing Vines.
19. 19.XIV — THE CORN CONTEST
20. 20.XV — THE GIRLS' SECRET WORK — Diagram: Scale ⅛ in.-1 ft. Note the proportional amount of grass space in the girls' garden. Observe, too, that it is the centre of interest. — THE FLOWER TIME-TABLE
21. 21.XVI — MORE ABOUT THE GIRLS' WORK. — THE BULB STORY 1. Ample Drainage 2. Depth of Planting 3. Perfect Root Development 4. Ready to Come to the Light Photographs by H.E. Angell and Henry Schultz. — LIST OF BULBS BY COLOURS
22. 22.XVII — THE GIRLS' WINTER WORK.
23. 23.XVIII — THE GRAND WIND-UP—GIRLS VS. BOYS
24. 24.PART II — THE CHIEF'S GARDEN TALKS
25. 25.I — THE SOIL — Constant Cultivation of the Soil Saved George's Cabbages Photograph by Karl W. Helmer
26. 26.II — PLANT FOOD
27. 27.III — SEEDS — PER CENT. OF GERMINATION — INDOOR PLANTING TIME-TABLE
28. 28.IV — THE PLANT ITSELF
29. 29.V — INCREASING PLANTS
30. 30.VI — GARDEN OPERATIONS — From this plan see the scheme of trenching. Top soil from AA' is carted to EE'. Then the top soil from BB' goes into AA'. Continue this method and see that the soil on EE' finally goes into trench DD'. So all the top soil in this given area is worked over and is still kept on top. — Jack's Rake Handle as a Measuring Stick — Albert Sowing Large Seeds Singly — Photographs by Edward Mahoney
31. 31.VII — COMMON WEEDS
32. 32.VIII — GARDEN PESTS — KEROSENE EMULSION — BORDEAUX MIXTURE — WHALE OIL SOAP HOT WATER SOLUTION
33. 33.IX — VEGETABLE CULTURE — Elizabeth Sowing Small Seed From the Package. Photograph by Helen W. Cook.
34. 34.X — FLOWER CULTURE
35. 35.XI — THE WILD-FLOWER GARDEN
36. 36.XII — LANDSCAPE GARDENING — PHILIP'S SHRUB TABLE — GARDEN OF CONSTANT BLOOM BY MONTHS — WATER AND BOG PLANTS — FOUR WATER-LILIES FOR BEGINNERS — WATER-LILIES FOR SMALL PONDS — TREE TABLE
37. 37.XIII — HOW BOYS AND GIRLS CAN MAKE MONEY FROM THEIR GARDENS — Photograph by W.H. Jenkins — Myron Transplanting his Long-rooted Strawberry Plants. — Photograph by Helen W. Cooke — Katherine Transplanting Her Flowers by a Method of Lifting.

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