Show TUB HOME GARDEN the story of the boy and ills little plot of ground at tile tho ago age or of five every boy Is by instinct a gardener it if gilded by opportunity port unity example and intelligent direction lie will dig plant and develop an interest in growing things lacking these the call of mother nature loads leads to mud pies given a square yard of mellow ground a tiny hoo hoc and a handful of beans a healthy five year old boy will have a combination that excels anything yet designed in nature study from five to ton tho the world begins to lawn dawn ile he looks up and out ho he sees and initiates imitates but does not reason ile he should play without hindrance it if the square yard of ground be enlarged to a rod the handful of beans to a collection of seeds the kinds for sale in tho the grocery stores are ara best as these have brilliantly colored pictures on the packages and the boy learns thereby what manner of a thing ho he Is to expect this square rod will bo be tho the play ground to a surprising extent ile ho may riot not plant tho the hinds you on ox hect or want him to plant as his view point is different from yours it Is unwise to insist on any given plan let this garden bo be ills his awn it if it has been entirely to carrots or br cabbage let it remain carrots and cabb cabbage age for they are more to him fm than your choice variety it is unwise to expect careful palas pains 1 J I 1 Z I 1 1 5 V I 1 0 I 1 I 1 1 1 A I 1 I 1 A 11 a I 1 r 11 I 1 f e I 1 I 1 I 1 P 19 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 V 11 A I 1 wo I 1 I 1 IV 0 V 0 i 1 1 I A K 0 r I 1 1 7 i I 1 11 1 I 1 0 0 t H f I 1 3 M 11 14 E I 1 ip 9 plo v ti 4 I 1 1 1410 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 lg I 1 Q Z IM 0 GETTING acquainted WITH EARTH taking effort and constant caro from a boy of tills this agu age enco encourage it but do riot not compel it ile iio can bo be taught liy by example all of tile needs of plant growth but his hoo hoc ins ing arid and wooding may bo be superficial it if you ask him he will allow you to dig in ills garden to loosen tile tho soil deeper than ills his strength permits it la is wise to do this for anere must do be carrots arid and cabbage to harvest or there will bu no play ground here next year it if the boy of five fire hns has been allowed tho the run of a garden if at eight he has it a garden of ills his own at ten ho he will love gardening find and will have absorbed an anin amazing zing store or of knowledge and to him h may bo be 4 1 at this ago in a way and manner that will awaken tho the tho the purest and best that Is in ili him the mystery of life A pumpkin plant on oil a compost heap sending its vigorous shoot over tho e woods climbing where it cannot cannot creep Cirtis ting iti IM snake 1110 lead head through gh the garden fence la is a thing of wonder to a boy if ito ho Is but to see it arid and when its groat great golden blossoms appear there Is 13 it a still greater wonder unfolded boys of twelve and fourteen may mar doi dei dobert desort sort bert the garden for the ball field or tho the fisch ff rod and it Is well they should for tho the serious time of liec is ia coming soon and play days should bo be as many and long as school and home duties will permit dut but a gardan for a boy at this ago may lie he a grenter factor in his training for life than at any other for by tills this time the root of if ill all ovll evil has entered his soul BOHI ho he his has learned that money is essential in to procuro procure tho the many things a boy atia have bave and the garden which to this time has been a recreation a penco of wonderful possibilities in tire he way of good things to aut and Pump pumpkins hIns for jacko jack Jacl co o lanterns may bo be a most fertile field of revenue whatever tho the crop tho ho proceeds should be miili will mII lr ahli own if lie ho has produced the crop wholly by ills his own efforts there Is but on one way that ile he can call learn the value of m oney money and that fo 3 by OfIr ning it the wise use of vioney money must also bo be learned but that is olit iii taldo tho the sphere of gardening from address of prof cranefield Crane neld I 1 I 1 wise college I 1 I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 2 wa I 1 |