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in the free open ground ; if this is not feasible, grow it in a pot or 

 box or tin can. Take advantage of the early spring enthusiasm. 

 Choose hardj and vigorous plants ; sow tlie seeds when tlie " spirit 

 moves.*' 



If one is interested in kitchen-garden vegetables, recommend let- 

 tuce and radish or a potato. If in flowers, suggest sweet pea, 

 bachelor's button or blue-bottle, annual phlox, candytuft. If in 



fruits, suggest strawberry. 



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AYe desire to inaugurate a general movement this spring for the 

 planting of plants. The school ground should be planted. Private 

 yards should be planted. Roadsides should be planted. In some 

 cities and villao;es there are committees or other oro-anizations whose 

 object it is to encourage planting of public and private places. 

 Sometimes this organization is connected with the school interest, 

 sometimes with a local horticultural or aerricultural societv, some- 

 times with a business men's orfyanization. There should be such a 

 committee in every villao-e and town. We wish that the teachers 

 might help in this work, for they would not only be lending their 

 aid to planting, but would be interesting their pupils in some con- 

 crete and useful work, and would teach them the value of public 

 ' spirit. Arbor day should be more than a mere ceremonial. It 

 should be a means of awakening interest in definite plans for the 

 adornment of the neighborhood and in directing the attention of 

 the children nature-ward. 



The Bureau of Nature Study will be glad to aid in any such 

 movement in the State, so far as it may be able. We shall be glad 

 to suggest kinds of plants, methods of organization, and the like. 

 We have issued several papers on planting, and these are now avail- 

 able : Bulletin 122, " Hints on the Planting of Shrubbery ; " Bull. 

 160, ''Kural School Grounds;" Bull. 161, "Annual Flowers;" 

 Nature-Study Leaflet No. 4, ''A Children's Garden ; " Leaflet No. 

 15, "A Handful of Soil" (Part 2). 



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