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NATURE-STUDY AXD SCHOOL GROUNDS 



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For the primary arrangement of school grounds, one must 

 go back to actual needs. The two chief objects are the school- 

 house and playground. The schoolhouse is best placed at one 

 side so as to leave a liberal space for the playground. Then it 

 is ready for the creation of a laboratory. 



It is a first principle of landscape gardening to leave the 

 space between the buildings and boundaries open and in grass, 

 and to plant the borders. This is evidently necessary in the 

 case of the playground and is quite as much so with other 

 spaces. A few trees are needed to shade the building and the 

 borders of the yard. A school yard is a bare place without 

 them but they must not interfere with the playground. One 

 must also study the protection they give from wind and sun. 

 It is of little use to plant trees on the north side of a building 



THE COMMON BARBERRY (BERBERIS VULGARIS) IN ATTRAC- 

 TIVE FRUIT 



(CUT LOANED BY HORTICULTURAL DEPT. IMV. OF ILL.) 



but they are needed on the south. Against the house and 

 boundaries and about the sheds is the place for shrubs. 



