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Rural School Lkaflet. 



Fig. 72. A band of gardeners 

 (Mr. Edward Mahoney, Yonkers, N. Y.) 



nearly all persons. In a school-garden in Chautauqua three kinds of 

 oats differing in quality were grown, and the children had an opportunity 

 to observe the value of selected seed. This gave an opportunity 

 for discussion along the line of plant breeding. 



11. Borders. Some place in the school-garden should be laid aside 

 for an attractive walk, flower-bordered on either side. In our garden 

 at Ithaca we have the entire grounds flower-bordered. The entrance 

 marked by a signpost leads along a path eight feet wide and seventy 

 feet long used as an approach to the tool house and assembly arbor. 

 (Fig. 75). This path has a border on each side in which last year were 

 grown the following: Nasturtiums, bachelor's buttons, marigolds, zin- 

 nias, larkspur, and sunflowers. The lowest-growing flowers, the dwarf 

 nasturtiums, were planted near the walk, the other flowers grading in 

 height up to the sunflowers. All of these plants were easily grown and 

 furnished flowers throughout the season. 



12. Shrubs. The first year the children should discuss at least one 

 shrub. Children like a touch of color, particularly red. I would suggest, 

 therefore, that each school try to secure a crimson rambler rose, which 



