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might easily fancy that they were about to enter the home of a local 

 banker. Proper planting has made all the difference. 



If I were asked to give details how to convert the building, that the 

 children hate and feel like quarreling with, into one of which they would 

 be proud, I should lay out a plan that might be carried on by the children 

 for a series of years. The first step would be to establish a good lawn. 

 A good lawn can be had only on good soil and good soil is composed 

 of an ample supply of humus added to stone flour (see suggestions to 

 teachers, page 35, New Series No. 3). We must accept conditions as 

 we find them and if not up to all requirements >ve must remedy them. 



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Bare and cheerless for lock of trees and shrubs. 



PLANTING OF TREKS. 



Selection. The mo'^t i)o])ular is the hard ma])lc. 



Whether it is the best or not depends on circumstances. 



A serious drawljack is its slow growth. I know a roadside row of 

 hard maples planted sixteen years ago that now have a diameter of per- 

 haps four inches when measured four feet from the ground. The soil is 

 fertile enough to give a yield of three tons of Concord grapes per acre. 



I know of another row planted twenty-eight years ago that has not 

 been maltreated by the telephone men that arc only about six inches in 



