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Rural School Leaflet. 



place on the school grounds, even a very small place, in which you can 

 plant a few seeds. I shall like to think of you out of doors some spring 

 day during school hours. I shall see you with spades and rakes and hoes, 

 each one busy and each one happy. Over in a near field a meadow lark 

 may be singing or, if you live in the city where there are no fields, I am 

 sure there "will be real music in the sparrow's note. 



There under the blue sky, among no end of sunbeams, you will turn 

 up the soil and get the new, wholesome smell of the springtime earth ; 

 you will plant the seeds — strange, mysterious things — and then day by 

 day you will look for the young plants. You will be interested to watch 

 the hard times they have to grow into strong plants. The frost may 

 try to nip them, injurious insects will have a hand in defeating their 

 progress, but some of them will grow and blossom and bear fruit in 

 spite of everything that happens to them. You will become so deeply 

 interested I am sure you will not be surprised when you learn what 

 great men have taken a real interest in the growing of plants for the 

 very pleasure of watching them grow. 



Boys and girls often ask us where they can get seeds. The following is 

 an announcement made by the James Vick's Sons Seed Company of 

 Rochester : 



Post Office. 

 School No. 



State . . 

 Grade . 



Teacher. 



James Vick's Sons 

 189 Main Street, East. 18-20 Stone Street 



Rochester, N. Y. 



Postage, two cents extra for every 12 packets of flower seed, and three cents extra 

 for every 12 packets of vegetable seeds. Large orders will go cheaper by express, 

 charges to be paid by the purchaser. No order accepted for less than one dozen packets. 



