NATURE-STUDY AND THE SCHOOL GROUNDS 



By A. PHELPS WYMAN, Assistant Professor of Landscape Gardening, University of 



Illinois 



Some studies must have laboratories for their greatest ef- 



The school grounds 



ficiency, and nature-studv is one of these. 



A BANK OF SPIRAEA VANHO [TTTEI PROPERLY PLANTED TO 

 CONCEAL THE FOUNDATION AND SUPPORT THE 

 CORNER OF THE BUILDING 



(CUT LOANED BY HORTICULTURAL DEPT % UNIV. OF ILL.) 



themselves may be such a laboratory. Every school yard 

 ought anyway to be planted with trees and flowers and shrubs, 

 and while the grounds are arranged for beauty they can at the 

 same time be made means of instruction in nature-study. 



What features does a school ground require for beauty that 

 it already has not now? Happily beauty does not depend so 

 much on extraneous things brought in, as in giving necessary 

 objects a position that is useful and attractive and a form which 

 fulfils its purpose. But in addition some few things may be 

 added, and these are trees and flowers and bushes. In the case 

 of grounds where nature-study is the desideratum, there need 

 not be planting additional to what is required for landscape 

 gardening purposes. 



