Rural School Leaflet. 947 



8. Old-fashioned flowers. — The children of the Ithaca schools enjoyed 

 laying aside a small piece of ground for a grandmother's garden. 

 In this were grown the following: 



Ice Plant Venus's Looking Glass (blue) 



Marigold Fenzlia dianthiflora 



Pansy Musk Plant 



Portulaca Cockscomb 



Morning Glory Mignonette 



Calliopsis Double Feverfew 



Gaura (Prince's Feather) 



Tall Zinnia Trumpet Flower 



Clarkia pulchella Globe Amaranth 



Catch Fly Petunia (single white) 



Shell Flower Sunflower 



Love-lies-bleeding Love-in-a-Mist 



Godetia Whitney Viscaria oculata 



Rose of Heaven Lady Slipper 



Four O'clock Pot Marigold 



Sweet Sultan • Bachelor's Button 



9. Observational plats. — Many children in villages and cities do not 

 know how the common grains look in the field. It is a good practice to 

 have observational plats in the school-garden, growing grains and some 

 of the more important economic plants that are used in some form by 

 nearly all persons. In a school-garden in Chautauqua three kinds of 

 oats, differing in quality, were grown, and the children had opportunity 

 to observe the value of selected seed. This gave opportunity for 

 discussion of plant breeding. 



10. Borders. — Some place in the school-garden should be chosen 

 for an attractive walk, flower-bordered on either side. In our garden 

 at Ithaca we have the entire grounds flower-bordered. The entrance, 

 marked by a signpost, leads along a path eight feet wide and seventy 

 feet long used as an approach to the tool house and assembly arbor. 

 This path has a border on each side in which last year were grown the 

 following: Nasturtiums, bachelor's buttons, marigolds, zinnias, lark- 

 spur, and sunflowers. The lowest-growing flowers, the dwarf nastur- 

 tiums, were planted near the walk, the other flowers grading in height 

 up to the sunflowers. All of these plants were easily grown, and fur- 

 nished flowers throughout the season. 



