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Then I planned an old-fashioned garden in the back of the school. 



The next puzzling thing which confronted me was "What shall 

 I have them plant?" This was solved by reading a few books on 

 the subject. Such books as "Bergen's Essentials of Botany," 

 "Shrubs for all Climates," "Our Northern Shrubs and How to 

 Identify Them — Keeler," "Landscape Gardening in America," 

 and ' ' Protective Decorations. ' ' 



This completed the plans. They were presented at a meeting 

 of the Mothers' Club by our teacher where they were accepted. 



Then the Club appointed a committee consisting of three ladies 

 living a short distance from the school to put this plan in effect. 

 The first movement they made was to get bulbs to be planted, the 

 money being obtained by placing a box in each room of the school 

 where the children were to save their pennies. The tulips were 

 then bought and planted in a large bed on the north side. The 

 Committee wished to plant shrubbery but at that time were rather 

 financially embarrassed. 



A real estate man heard of their plan and also the lack of funds, 

 so kindly donated some shrubbery from Oak Knolls and also spent 

 one afternoon on which he superintended the transplanting. 



The Park Board also decided to donate some of the surplus 

 shrubbery from some of the Parks so the yard is quite changed. 



During the hours of recreation the children, under the super- 

 vision of their teachers, work carefully in caring for it. They are 

 all proud to say they are helping to beautify their lawn. 



If this school continues in beautifying its lawn it will place them 

 first in the beautiful lawns along the city schools. We hope they 

 will succeed in doing this which will make the patrons proud to say 

 they are associated with that school. 



SHADY NOOKS 



Nellie Jones 



Since I was to help in arranging the plantings on the Stuart 

 School ground, I chose the shady places. First I measured my 

 plot of ground in order to know how many plants to put in. Then 

 I had to decide what to plant so as to give the best possible effect. 

 I obtained my idea for the arrangement of my plot from a book 

 called, "The Illinois Way," which we had been using in school for 



