Teachers' Leaflet. 



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This is true when early bulbs are planted at the base of flowering 

 shrubs. Alany experiments in germniation may be made beneath the 

 branches of a rose or lilac. 



The school laboratory planting on the border of the school grounds is 

 an adaptation of one of the fundamental principles in effective landscape 

 gardening — that of constituting a frame about the school buildings. 



Bulletin 160 Figure 2-/ illustrates the frame idea of which I speak. 

 Unfortunately many persons plant all things between the building and 

 the street as a merchant would put his goods in his show window. This 

 is a mistake. See Bulletin lOo Figure 2O. Fortunately, border planting 



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A picture, of z^'liich a scliool house is the central figure. 



as shown by Fig, 25 is well adapted to school grounds where the more 

 open part is used for a play-ground and the borders for planting. 



For a vivid illustration of what planting will do for the appearance of 

 a school building I would call your attention to the picture on page 6. 

 You have the evidence th.at it was built for a temple of learning because 

 of the flagstaff. r)therwise it looks like a barrack — a pile of bricks in 

 a desert. I can well understand why the children should have no love 

 for it, should make faces at it and have an impulse to throw stones 

 through the windows. On page 7 is shown another building that when 

 it came from the contractor's hands must have had about the same 

 look as had the first. Study the difference in appearance. The children 

 would have no occasion to be on bad terms with its looks. In fact they 



