{"product_id":"2940014785655","title":"Gardening for Little Girls","description":"Gardening for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster, author of “Cookery for Little Girls” “Sewing for Little Girls” “Housekeeping for Little Girls”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. First Steps Toward a Garden\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Planning and Planting the Flower Beds\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Flowers that Must be Renewed Every Year--(Annuals)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Flowers that Live Through Two Years\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Flowers that come up Every Year by Themselves (Perennials)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Flowers that Spring from a Storehouse (Bulbs and Tubers)\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. That Queen--The Rose\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Vines, Tender and Hardy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Shrubs We Love to See\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Vegetable Growing for the Home Table\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Your Garden’s Friends and Foes\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. A Morning Glory Playhouse\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. The Work of a Children’s Garden Club\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14. The Care of House Plants\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15. Gifts that will Please a Flower Lover\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16. The Gentlewoman’s Art--Arranging Flowers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChildren take naturally to gardening, and few occupations count so much for their development,--mental, moral and physical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdeas 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.”\u003cbr\u003eIt is with the hope of helping both mothers and children that this little book has been most lovingly prepared.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNote\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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!","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152916234480,"sku":"2940014785655","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014785655_p0.jpg?v=1763615887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014785655","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}