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they are cheapest, hardiest and most likely to grow. There is no 

 district so poor and bare that enough plants cannot be secured, 

 without money, for the school yard. You will find them in 

 the woods, in old yards, along the fences. It is little matter 

 if no one knows their names. What is handsomer than a 

 tangled fence -row ? 



Scatter in a few trees along the fence and about the buildings. 



33. A newly made landscape garden, ready for the border planting . 



Maples, basswood, elms, ashes, buttonwood, pepperidge, oaks, 

 beeches, birches, hickories, poplars, a few trees of pine or spruce 

 or hemlock, any of these are excellent. If the country is bleak, a 

 rather heavy planting of evergreens about the border, in the 

 place of so much shrubbery, is excellent. 



For shrubs, use the common things to be found in the woods 

 and swales, together with roots which can be had in every old 

 yard. Willows, osiers, witch hazel, dogwood, wild roses, thorn 

 apples, haws, elders, sumac, wild honeysuckles, these and 

 others can be found in every school district. From the farm 

 yards can be secured snowballs, spireas, lilacs, forsythias, mock- 



