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NATURE STUDY AND LIFE 



The list that I would select, conditions being favorable, 

 might be the following, in order ; that is, if room was 

 sufficient for but one, take the first, if sufficient for 

 three, the first three, and so on. 



1. Mulberry. 



2. Asiatic Wild Apple, Pyrus 



baccata, with the Euro- 

 pean Wild Apple, P. 

 malus, planted beside it 

 or grafted to one of the 

 main branches. 



3. Hackberry. 



4. Red Cedar. 



5. Black Cherry. 



6. One of the improved chest- 



nuts, Paragon, Numbo, or 

 Parry's Giant. 



7. Hickory Nut. 



8. Black Walnut. 



9. Butternut. 



10. An Oak. 



11. White Pine. 



12. Native Wild Crab Apple. 



13. Sassafras. 



14. Tulip Tree. 



15. Sycamore. 



1 6. Soft Maple. 



17. Hemlock. 



1 8. Larch. 



19. A Spruce. 



20. A group of White Birches. 



21. Purple Beech. 



22. A Locust. 



23. Linden. 



24. An Ash. 



There is apt to be so much monotony in street and pub- 

 lic park planting that the school garden may well contain 

 trees that are less commonly seen. 



For the fruit garden we should have one, or several, 

 if there is room, of each of the standard fruits peach, 

 pear, plum, apple, quince, grape, cherry the best for the 

 locality ; or several varieties may be grafted into one tree, 

 for experiments in cross-pollination. A number of the 

 bush fruits raspberries, blackberries, currants, goose- 

 berries, and strawberries might furnish instructive 

 materials, but it should be remembered that they ripen 

 during the summer vacation and hence belong more prop- 

 erly in the home gardens. 



