Junior Naturalist Monthly. 349 



WALL PICTURES FOR THE SCHOOL ROOM. 



My dear Teacher: — 



We also send in this supplement, miniature samples of three wall 

 pictures relating to rural life. Will you make a choice of one to be 

 put on the walls of your school room, that pupils of coming school 

 years may regard it as a token of our appreciation of the interest 

 and help you have given the members of the Junior Naturalist 

 Club of 1904-5? You may have either one of the three. Order 

 by giving the letter (A, B or C). The pictures themselves are large 

 enough for the walls in any school room. 



Jno. W. Spencer. 



SOMETHING FOR THE CHILDREN TO PLANT. 



I presume that you will be making Arbor Day plans by the time 

 this monthly lesson reaches you. The duties of that day are generally 

 understood as meaning the planting of trees. I would not say a 

 word that would influence any one to plant one tree less. There 

 are many other things, however, that may be planted to as great 

 advantage. They may be planted on your school grounds and at 

 your homes. 



I have been thinking of a list to recommend for your consideration. 

 I have one list of roses, lilacs and that class of shrubs; another list 

 of peonies, bleeding heart and the like ; in the third list I have climbers. 

 In all, I have about thirty different kinds of plants. 



Then it came into my mind that when I was a lad I liked best to 

 be told of a few things or given a short problem at a time. When 

 hoeing corn, I would choose ten rows ten feet long, rather than 

 one long row one hundred feet long. The end did not seem so far 

 away. I do not think boy nature has changed much since my time. 



If I talk to you about planting two things, you are more likely 

 to follow my instruction than if I talk about thirty. 



■ I shall speak about two kinds of climbers. King's palaces may 

 be improved by vines growing on the walls. I know of some school 

 houses — and so do you — whose appearance would be improved if 

 a mantle of vines covered them three feet thick. The farther the 

 building is out of sight, ^o much the better. Some school trustees 

 have the notion that vines rot a building and make it unhealthy. 

 If you find such objections in your district, you will have to give up 

 the idea of vine planting. I would not argue the question, but 

 you can keep up just as hard thinking as you like— thinking what 

 you will do some day when you are trustee and children want to make 

 the school grounds appear more attractive. 



