968 Rural Sciioor^ Leaflet 



districts in this State philanthropists are ready to help in developing more 

 attractive school surroundings. We hope that the article by Mr. Booth 

 in this issue of the leaflet will give inspiration for a beginning. It would 

 be well to note particularly, in connection with the improvement of the 

 Canandaigua school, the following: 



1. A good architect was employed. 



2. The planting is of such nature that it will be of great educational 

 value to the boys and girls, as well as an ornamental landscape feature 

 that will benefit the entire community. 



3. The library has a fireplace. 



4. In the new plan proper lighting was considered. 



5. There are good blackboards. 



6. A color scheme was carried out. 



7. There was consideration of the teacher's comfort. 



8. Individual enameled drinking cups are provided. 



9. There is an endowment fund, the interest of which will be used for 

 the future care of the grounds. 



THE RURAL ECHOOL, DISTRICT NO. 9, CANANDAIGUA, ONTARIO COUNTY 



C. F. Booth 



Before any improvements were made in the niral school building of 

 District No. 9, but little could be said of the place in which the boys and 

 girls were spending the greater part of their young lives. The schoolhouse 

 consisted of a one-room, structure, built in 1819, with the usual stove 

 in the center. The grounds were completely occupied by the building. 

 The outbuildings were partially in the highway on borrowed territory. 



The present school building has grounds consisting of an acre of good 

 land, graded and terraced, with a hedge of Lombardy poplars (100 trees) 

 in the rear and on the side of the lot, forming an attractive background 

 for the white building. There are nine elms, one white pine, eight Nor- 

 way maples, one Norway spruce, three hemlocks, one English walnut, 

 twenty-four dogwood trees, one shrub of white honeysuckle, twenty-four 

 shrubs of spiraea, twenty-four Dorothy Perkins rosebushes, twenty-four 

 shrubs of barberry. The plan of the new building, page 175, will explain 

 itself. The light is from the east and north of the schoolroom. There is a 

 slate blackboard on the west side and another back of the teacher's desk. 



The color scheme is as follows : the ceiling, and the side walls as far down 

 as the picture molding, are cream color; the main part of the room, pale 

 green; the library, terra cotta; the fireplace in the library, red pressed brick. 



In the library are bookcases and a private locker for the teacher, a 

 lavatory bowl, and individual drinking cups. 



