;i6 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Fig. 2492. Maple Terrace, Dundurn Park, Hamilton. 



the extreme neglect 



that characterizes the 



trustees of our town 



and country school 



yards. Here is the 



place where the ideals 



of the children are 



formed ; every day 



they visit these yards 



and they become as 



familiar with them as 



with those of their 



homes ; the period is 



the formative one of 



their tastes, and in 



maturer years these 



ideals of garden and 



lawn, formed in child- 

 hood, will be realized 



in their own home 



surrounding's. 



It is well that Mr. 



Gilchrist, in his address to Horticultural of an improvement in school surroundings. 



Societies, has been emphasizing the necessity and we shall be pleased to give hints from 



time to time In 

 this journal for 

 such work. The 

 cuts on opposite 

 page will impress 

 the reader with 

 the change that 

 may be wrought 

 by a little care 

 in laying out and 

 planting the 

 grounds about 

 even the hum- 

 blest school 

 building in the 

 country ; Fig. 

 2495, showing 

 a neglected 

 school yard, 

 which, we regret 

 to say, is only 

 Fig. 2493. Landsdowne Park, Hamilton. too often true to 



