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person who has the management of a school-garden should get as much 

 information as possible in regard to arranging flowers. Combinations 

 of flowers should be taught. Some cut flowers look best by themselves, 

 while the beauty of others is increased tenfold by combining with some 

 other blossoms or bit of green. Have you ever arranged sweet peas with 

 gypsophila (infant's breath) ? Have you ever taken the black-eyed- 

 Susans from the field and arranged them in a bowl with the common 

 sensitive fern? Have you ever arranged red poppies with oats? 



1.3. Flowers of field and wayside. — If I were teaching in a rural school 

 I should discuss with the children ways in which we might use some 

 of the common field plants for decorative purposes. Clovers, daisies, 

 buttercups, black-eyed-Susans, goldenrods, asters, ferns, wild lupine, 

 timothy, wheat, and the like might be used for borders, and from these 

 one would bo able to gather good combinations for arrangement in 

 vases for the home and school. Field plants are aggressive, but they 

 can be controlled by removing the seeds. 



14. Sun dial. — Sunshine and shadow give material for many nature- 

 study lessons. Sunlight has to do with gardens. The sun dial offers 

 outdoor interest and would be desirable in the schoolyard. 



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Abnuf thp Ijilla, along tltp blur. 

 Suunii thr brigl^t air UJitlj fnnting trnr 

 So plraar the rl^ilb. tn ^laint X\\t roar. 

 OIl|p gardrnrr uf tbp mnrlb \\t gnra. 



— Robert Louis Stevenson 



