I044 Rural School Leaflet. 



In the meantime, the ground can be chosen and prepared. Full direc- 

 tions for setting will accompany the plants. The boys and girls who 

 receive these are asked to care for them and report in the summer or 

 the fall what success they have had. 



This work will be very interesting for any club or for any boy or girl 

 to take up. The strawberries will bear one year from the time of plant- 

 ing and raspberries will bear the second year. If these plants are well 

 cared for in the meantime the fruit will be of high quality and very 

 attractive. The boys and girls can pick this fruit and market it them- 

 selves, either shipping it in small packages or selling it to their neighbors. 

 If the fruit is extra fine in quality and neatly and attractively put up, 

 they should receive a few cents more per quart than the growers around 

 them. Such work will be the source of a great deal of satisfaction. 

 It will encourage boys and girls to plant larger patches and may lead 

 them to enter fruit-culture on a larger scale. 



The plants will be given out to children in Farm Boys' and Girls* 

 Clubs only. A first and a second choice should be given as some of the 

 fruits may be exhausted before everyone is supplied. Currants and 

 raspberries are limited to fifty requests each; there will be no limit to 

 the strawberries. The postage will be six cents. We will have to ask 

 the children to pay this since we have not funds enough to cover the cost 

 of transportation. In case, however, any child is not able to pay the 

 postage we may be able to make some arrangement. 



Address all requests to Mr. M. P. Jones, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. Mr. Jones will see that Professor Wilson receives the correspond- 

 ence. 



QUOTATIOXS 



Some young and saucy dandelions 



Stood laughing in the sun. 

 They were brimming full of happiness, ' 



And running o'er with fun, 

 They stretched their necks so slender ' ' 



To stars up in the sky, 

 They frolicked with the bumblebee 



And teased the butterfly. — C. E. H. 



Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold through the brown mold, 

 Although the March breezes blew keen on her face. 

 Although the white snow lay on many a place. — Mins Warner, 



Ah March! we know thou art. 

 Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, 

 And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets. — Helen Hunt Jackson., 



