OUR VILLAGE 



neat new ones provided; the sheds at the rear 

 were reboarded and painted a quiet, neutral 

 color. Then we went to work on the school 

 grounds, and we did not leave them until they 

 were as tidy in appearance as the grounds 

 about our homes were. We set out a good 

 many trees there, some of them evergreens, 

 made provision for beds to be filled with 

 flowers by the children, and arranged trellises 

 of lathwork, to be covered with vines, as screens 

 for the outbuildings. 



Then " the park " was taken in hand. This- 

 tles, Mulleins, Nettles, and other weeds of an 

 aggressive character had taken full possession, 

 and the cows which had been allowed to feed 

 there had not interfered with them. These we 

 cleared away and sowed the places where they 

 had grown with lawn-grass seed. We built seats 

 here and there under the trees and erected a 

 rustic band-stand in the centre of the lot, about 

 which we planted Ampelopsis and Bittersweet 

 and wild Clematis. These vines have since 

 grown to such size that they completely hide 

 the wood of which the stand is built, and make 

 it really "a thing of beauty" in summer. 

 In some of the open places we set out native 

 plants Golden-rods and Asters. In others 



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