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Gardening for Little Girls - Olive Hyde Foster
Olive Hyde Foster
Gardening for Little Girls
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066205300
Table of Contents
Preface
ILLUSTRATIONS
GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS
GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS
CHAPTER I
BIG WORDS FOR COMMON THINGS
PLANT NEEDS
THE SEED NURSERY
RULES FOR INDOOR PLANTING
FAMILIAR ANNUALS
EASILY GROWN PERENNIALS
HARDY FLOWERS ALL SUMMER
CHAPTER II
EASY RULES FOR ARTISTIC PLANTING
PLAN FOR SMALL BACK YARD
SUCCESSION OF BLOOM
A CITY GARDEN
A LITTLE BED FOR A LITTLE GIRL
WINDOW BOXES
CHAPTER III
OUTDOOR PLANTING
TRANSPLANTING—ANNUALS
PUDDLING
SWEET PEAS
FLOWERS THAT MUST BE RENEWED EVERY YEAR
CHAPTER IV
FLOWERS THAT LIVE THROUGH TWO YEARS
CHAPTER V
THE SEED BED
TRANSPLANTING PERENNIALS
PERENNIALS FOR A WHOLE SEASON'S BLOOM
FLOWERS THAT COME UP EVERY YEAR BY THEMSELVES
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
MAKING A ROSE BED
ROSE FERTILIZER
FALL PROTECTION
SPRING PRUNING
SPRAYING
EFFECTIVE SPRAY FOR ROSE BUGS
ROSES
AMERICAN GROWN ROSES
A SPECIALIST'S LIST OF TEAS AND HYBRID TEAS
CHAPTER VIII
WARNING
BOOKS THAT WILL HELP
VINES THAT MUST BE RENEWED EVERY YEAR
VINES THAT LIVE ON FROM YEAR TO YEAR
CHAPTER IX
SHRUBS
CHAPTER X
VEGETABLE GUIDE
Beans. Pole
Beans. Lima
Beets.
Cabbage.
Carrots.
Cauliflower.
Celery.
Chicory Witloof—or French Endive.
Corn. Sweet
Cucumbers.
Endive. See Chicory
Melons.
Watermelons.
Onions.
Parsley.
Parsnips.
Peas.
Potatoes.
Radishes.
Spinach.
Squash.
Tomatoes.
Turnips.
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
SIMPLE INDOOR NOVELTIES
WINTER BLOOMING BULBS
SPRING BEAUTIES
BOOKS FOR THE INDOOR GARDENER
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
Preface
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Children take naturally to gardening, and few occupations count so much for their development,—mental, moral and physical.
Where children's garden clubs and community gardens have been tried, the little folks have shown an aptitude surprising to their elders, and under exactly the same natural, climatic conditions, the children have often obtained astonishingly greater results. Moreover, in the poor districts many a family table, previously unattractive and lacking in nourishment, has been made attractive as well as nutritious, with their fresh green vegetables and flowers.
Ideas of industry and thrift, too, are at the same time inculcated without words, and habits formed that affect their character for life. A well-known New York City Public School superintendent once said to me that she had a flower bed every year in the children's gardens, where a troublesome boy could always be controlled by giving to him the honor of its care and keeping.
The love of nature, whether inborn or acquired, is one of the greatest sources of pleasure, and any scientific knowledge connected with it of inestimable satisfaction. Carlyle's lament was, Would that some one had taught me in childhood the names of the stars and the grasses.
It is with the hope of helping both mothers and children that this little book has been most lovingly prepared.
ILLUSTRATIONS
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Footnote
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As the desire is to give the widest possible range of information about the plants and flowers mentioned herein, and space forbids going into details in each case, the writer has endeavored to mention all the colors, extremes of height, and entire season of bloom of each kind. But the grower must find out the particular variety obtained, and NOT expect a shrubby clematis to climb, or a fall rose to blossom in the spring!
GARDENING FOR
LITTLE GIRLS
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A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
Rose plot,
Fringed pool,
Fern'd grot—
The veriest school
Of peace; and yet the fool
Contends that God is not—
Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool?
Nay but I have a sign:
'Tis very sure God walks in mine.
—Thomas Edward Brown.
GARDENING FOR
LITTLE GIRLS
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CHAPTER I
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First Steps Toward a Garden
And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
—Bacon.
If
you want a flower garden, you can begin work as early as March. Does that sound strange,—with cold winds and occasional snow? Ah, but the plans should all be laid then, and many things started in the house.
Four steps must be taken before starting actual work:
First.—Find out what space you can have for your garden.
Second.—Consider the soil, situation, surroundings.
Third.—Make a list of seeds, bulbs, etc., desired.
Fourth.—Decide on planting with view to height and color.
As to the first step, find out positively where you can have your garden. It makes considerable difference whether you can have the whole back yard, a plot along the walk, a round bed in the center of the lawn (only worse than none at all!), or a window-box. You can not very well decide on a single plant until this is settled.
As to the second step, learn all you can about the soil, situation, surroundings. Is your ground rich or poor? If light and sandy, you can grow such flowers as nasturtiums and mignonette. By adding fertilizer you can have poppies, roses, and dahlias. If the ground is heavy and stiff with clay, you can still have your roses and dahlias if you will add both manure and sand. So find out what kind of earth you are going to work with. Quite poor soil will grow sweet alyssum, California poppies, coreopsis and geraniums, while rich soil is needed for asters, larkspur, zinnias and marigolds. And think about your location (a dry spot being necessary for portulaca, and a cool, moist place for lily-of-the-valley), as well as bear in mind whether your garden is sheltered and warm or exposed to the chilly winds. Any desert can be made to blossom as the rose,—if you only know how.
As to the third step, make the list of the seeds, bulbs, etc., that you would like, with the idea of having some flowers in bloom the whole summer long. If you are lucky enough to have a kind friend or neighbor give you of her store, they will probably be good and come up as they should. If you have to buy, though, be sure to go to a first-class, reliable dealer, for you don't want to waste your time and money on old things that won't grow.
Then last of all, decide on your planting from this list with a view to height and color, so that you will arrange to the best advantage,—the nasturtiums which climb, for instance, going to the back of the bed against wall or trellis, while the dwarf variety should be at the front.
BIG WORDS FOR COMMON THINGS
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To select your flowers intelligently, though, you must know something about their nature, habits, and tendencies, and certain words always found in seed catalogues and garden books may be puzzling to a beginner.
a. Annuals, for example, are the plants that live but a year or a single season.
b. Biennials, however, continue for two years before they perish, making roots and leaves the first year and usually flowering the second.
c. Perennials are the kind that continue for more than two years.
d. Deciduous refers to the shrubs and trees that lose their leaves in the fall.
e. Evergreens are those that keep their verdure the whole year round.
f. Herbaceous plants may be annual, biennial or perennial, but they have a stem that does not become woody, and that dies down after