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ARBOR DAY ITS HISTORY AND OBSERVANCE. 



bordered by green turf, with trees and shrubs and flowers offering their 

 adornment. Everything should speak of neatness and order. The 

 playground should be ample, but it should be in a retired situation and 

 by itself. 



Europeans are in advance of us in school management. The Aus- 

 trian public school law reads: 



"In every school a gymnastic ground, a garden for the teacher, 



according to the circumstances of the community, and a place for the 

 purposes of agricultural experiment, are to be created." 



There are now nearly 8,000 school gardens in Austria, not including 

 Hungary. In France, also, gardening is taught in the primary and 

 elementary schools. There are nearly 30,000 of these schools, each of 

 which has a garden attached to it, and the minister of public instruc- 

 tion has resolved to increase the number of school gardens, and that 

 no one shall be appointed master of an elementary school unless he can 

 prove himself capable of giving practical instruction in the culture of 



