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Arbor Day and field days, there will be little or no difficulty 

 in keeping the sentiment of the school up where care will 

 be taken that no injury is done to the ornamental material 

 planted. 



If all the pupils of a school can be encouraged to take up 

 the study of the science of botany, and beds or plots of 

 ground provided for the germination of seeds or growing 

 of interesting plants, it will be a source of instruction and 

 pleasure and lead often to more extended decoration; but 

 where only one class takes up the work, the feeling of class 

 jealousy is often such that work of this kind is not safe 

 from molestation. 



As in tree-planting by the roadside or on the lawn, the 

 mistake is very often made of planting too closely for full 

 and perfect growth. They should not be planted so close 

 to the building as to shade the windows and cut off the 

 light. 



No nuisance or objectionable views should be permitted 

 near the school-house, and if distant views of beauty and 

 interest can be preserved and unpleasant features shut out 

 in the arrangement of the trees and shrubs, as they often 

 can be, it should be done. The more beautiful and attrac- 

 tive features that can be brought together about our school- 

 houses and grounds the more easily will the pupils be gov- 

 erned, and the greater will be their progress in everything 

 that makes for good citizenship and upright, honorable lives. 



Cemetery Decoration 

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The decoration of the resting-places of those loved ones 

 who have gone before has always received much attention, 

 and special grounds in every village and hamlet have been 

 set aside sacred to this purpose. 



In the earlier days of our country the space devoted to 



