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from Sabbathday Lake, their quiet and beautiful home. They 

 brought lunch baskets and dinner pails along with them, and the 

 jolly good time they had together will be long remembered. The 

 second day the school was held in Centennial Hall, Upper 

 Gloucester, and was well attended by the children. The topics 

 presented to the children were as follows : 

 i. Plant life. 



2. How plants are propagated. 



3. Leaves, flowers, fruits. 



4 Setting out plants, sowing seed, etc. 



5. The study of plants on the farm. 



6. Insects — friends and foes. 



7. The care of the fruit for home and market. 



8. How to make plants grow to produce flowers and fruit. 

 The children brought note books and pencils, and their little 



fingers were busy taking down the outlines presented by the 

 speakers. In the instruction we were ably assisted by Fred W. 

 Card, Professor of Horticulture in Rhode Island College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts ; Prof. W. M. Munson of the Univer- 

 sity of Maine and Mrs. V. P. DeCoster of Buckfield. 



The instruction of Prof. Card who has done so much to 

 promote nature study among children was particularly accept- 

 able to the children and others present. 



May 1st being Arbor Day President Gilbert planted a tree upon 

 the lawn as an appropriate memorial of the first horticultural 

 school for children ; the closing exercise of which was the sing- 

 ing of the following Arbor Day song : 



Strike deep thy rootlets down, 

 Spread forth thy leafy crown, 



Make fair this place, 

 Richly by Nature blest, 

 Shelter the song-bird's nest, 

 Shadow the traveler's rest, 



With airy grace. 



Upright as truth, oh tree, 

 Widespread as charity, 



Rooted in love, 

 Though skies be blue or gray, 

 Reach farther day by day, 

 Bare boughs or leaves of May, 



Ever above. 



