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CIVIC IMPROVEMENT 



why the school grounds should not contain from two to five 

 acres of ground. This will afford reasonable space for separate 

 school gardens and separate playgrounds for boys and girls. 



Teacher and pupils should bend every energy and effort to make 

 the school grounds neat and attractive. Nurserymen will fre- 

 quently donate trees and shrubs for this purpose. The native 

 trees and shrubs of the vicinity may be utilized to good advantage, 

 and should be used. Begin this work now, and each year arrange 



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Plan for school grounds. 



for suitable tree-planting exercises on Arbor Day and invite the 

 whole neighborhood to join you in the work. 



Let the schoolhouse be shaded with trees and the lawn set out 

 in Bermuda grass or some other hardy grass. Hide the unsightly 

 outbuildings, walls, and fences with the Virginia creeper or 

 morning-glory vines. Place a number of large trees in the back 

 part of the yard for a background and dispose about them appro- 

 priate groups of shrubs. Arrange the flowers in beds and borders 



