HINTS ON RURAL SCHOOL GROUNDS. 



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28. The blackboard plan. 



a beautiful hill or field. Throw a handful of shrubs into the 



corners by the steps, and about the bare corners of the building. 

 You now have a plan to work 



to. It has been the work of five 



minutes at the blackboard. 

 Sometimes the problem is not 



so simple as all this. There may 



be three entrances to the grounds 



and a highway on two sides. 



Fig. 29 is a plan made for such 



a place in western New York. 



It was thought to be necessary 



to separate the play -grounds of 



the boys and girls. This was done by a wide hedge-row of bushes 



running back from the schoolhouse. 



An interesting case as shown in Figs. 21 and 22. It is indecent 



j I to put the two out- 



buildings together. 

 But it was assumed 

 that it would not be 

 allowable to move 

 them. The place is 

 bald and cheerless . 

 The outlay of a day's 

 work, and no money, 

 might cause it to look 

 like Fig. 22 inside of 

 three or four years. 



Perhaps some per- 

 sons object to so much 



29. Suggestions for the planting of a school- shrubbery. They look 



yard upon four corners. From "Lessons 



with Plants." u P n lt: as mere brush. 



Very well ; then use 



trees alone. But do not scatter them hit and miss over the place. 

 Throw them in at the side, as in Fig. 30. Give room for 

 the children to play ; and make the place a picture at the same 

 time. Three or four trees may be planted near the building to 

 shade it, but the heaviest planting should be on the sides. 



