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periment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. It is sent free to 

 applicants. 



The bulletin is finely illustrated and gives explicit 

 directions for planting trees, shrubbery, and flowers on 

 school grounds. The suggestions given there can also 

 be applied to rural homes, city homes, and city schools. 

 If you follow out Professor Bailey's ideas, you will soon 

 have trees, shrubs, flowers, and birds near your homes 

 and schools, and they will become the beauty spots of 

 the country. 1 



1 See an article on "School Gardens" in Appleton's Popular Science 

 Monthly, February, 1898. Write to Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Fort Collins, Col., for " Notes on Birds of Colorado ; " to Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Orono, Maine, for two pamphlets, "Ornament- 

 ing Home Grounds" and "Ornamental Plants for Maine ;" to Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Lincoln, Neb., for "Ornamental Plant- 

 ing" and "Methods of Tree Planting;" to U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for "Forestry for Farmers." See 

 also "The Winter Food of Chickadees" and "The Feeding Habits of 

 the Chipping Sparrow," by Clarence M. Weed, Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Durham, N. H. 



