The latter were mostly devoted to young tomato plants, though one was specially reserved for vegetable marrows.

The students had to learn how to manage and regulate the heating apparatus of the houses, as well as to understand the culture of the plants.
"I left a window open once," confessed Miss Heald.

"I remembered it when I had been about an hour in bed, and I jumped up and dressed in a hurry, and went out with a lantern to shut it.

Fortunately there was no frost that night, or all the seedlings might have been killed.

It was a most dreadful thing to forget! I thought Miss Carson would have jumped on me, but she was ever so nice about it." Despite the predominance of foodstuffs there were a few flowers in the garden, clumps of forget-me-not and narcissus, purple iris, golden saxifrages and scarlet anemones.