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Title: The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.

Author: Ellen Eddy Shaw

Release Date: September 27, 2004 [EBook #13537]

Language: English

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_The Library of Work and Play_

GARDENING AND
FARMING

BY ELLEN EDDY SHAW

1911

COPYRIGHT, 1911

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE REAL BOYS OF THIS
REAL CLUB AND TO THE GIRLS WHO ARE
JUST AS GOOD AS BOYS

CONTENTS

PART I--THE GARDEN CLUB

CHAPTER

I. The Garden Club

II. The Boys' Garden Difficulties

III. The Girls' Secret

IV. Garden Experiments Performed Indoors

V. The Work Shop End of the Garden

VI. What the Girls Made Winter Evenings

VII. Improving the School Grounds

VIII. Myron's Strawberry Bed

IX. Jack's All-Round Garden

X. Albert and Jay's Drainage Problem

XI. George's Cabbage Troubles

XII. Peter, Potatoes and Profit

XIII. Philip's Backyard

XIV. The Corn Contest

XV. The Girls' Secret Work

XVI. More About the Girls' Work

XVII. The Girls' Winter Work

XVIII. The Grand Wind-Up--Girls vs. Boys

PART II.--THE CHIEF'S GARDEN TALKS

CHAPTER

I. The Soil

II. Plant Food

III. Seeds

IV. The Plant Itself

V. Increasing Plants

VI. Garden Operations

VII. Common Weeds

VIII. Garden Pests

IX. Vegetable Culture

X. Flower Culture

XI. The Wild-Flower Garden

XII. Landscape Gardening

XIII. How Boys and Girls Can Make Money from Their Gardens

ILLUSTRATIONS

Dee's Garden Was a "Lovesome Thing" _Frontispiece_

The Way The Chief Taught His Boys to Handle Tools

Jay's Tile Drain Converted a Swamp into a Garden

Philip's Backyard Made Beautiful by Annuals and Quick-growing Vines

The Bulb Story

Constant Cultivation of the Soil Saved George's Cabbages

Jac