Rural School Leaflet, 1019 



the children may dig up the soil in this place and in the fall the root of 

 the wild plant may be obtained. One school in this State is trying to 

 have specimens of all the wild flowers in the vicinity. The children sliould 

 always be cautioned against exterminating wild flowers. 



Old-fashioned flowers . — The children of the Ithaca schools enjoyed 

 laying aside a piece of ground for a grandmother's garden. In this were 

 grown the following: 



Ice Plant Venus' Looking Glass (blue) 



Marigold Fenzlia dianthiflora 



Pansy " Musk Plant 



Portulaca Cockscomb 



Morning Glory Mignonette 



Calliopsis Double Feverfew 



Gaura (Prince's Feather) 



Tall Zinnia Trumpet Flower 



Clarkia pulchella Globe Amaranth 



Catch Fly Petunia (single white) 



Shell Flower Sunflower 



Love-lies-bleeding Love-in-a-mist 



Godetia Whitney Viscaria oculata 



Rose of Heaven Lady Slipper 



Four O'clock Pot Marigold 



Sweet Sultan Bachelor's Button 



Observational plats. — Many children in villages and cities do not 

 know how the common grains look in the field. It is a good idea to have 

 observational plats in the school-garden, growing grains, and some of 

 the more important economic plants that are used in some form by 

 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 in plant-breeding. 



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. This path 

 has a border on each side in which last year were growing the following: 

 Nasturtiums, Bachelor's Buttons, Marigolds, Zinnias, Larkspur, and 

 Sunflowers. The lowest-growing flowers, the dwarf Nasturtiums, were 

 planted near the walk, the other flowers grading in height up to the 



