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cation of their children, every child will readily take part 

 in the enterprise. Let the children plant and name their 

 trees, and they will protect, guard, and cultivate them in 

 the future. It may be argued that it will simply be labor 

 wasted, as the teachers employed will not interest them- 

 selves in this matter sufficiently to protect the grounds 

 from injury. Such teachers should not be employed, for 

 they are not competent to instruct, govern, and train 

 children ; nothing more plainly portrays the qualifications 

 and taste of a teacher than the condition of the fencing, 

 out-houses, trees, and shrubbery on the school grounds. 

 The teacher who has no taste in this direction is unfit 

 to be placed in charge of children." He also gives some 

 excellent advice as to the manner of observing the day 

 in schools: 



1. Select and dig the trees several days in advance, 

 being sure to keep their roots moist by binding wet straw 

 carefully around them and burying temporarily in the 

 ground. 



2. Select trees, straight and smooth, from one to two 

 inches in diameter, cut top off at seven feet, and all limbs 

 cut back to eight or ten inches. 



3. The best trees are in order : Linn, ash, box-elder, 

 elm, hard maple, sycamore, pecan, walnut, soft maple, 

 and evergreens. 



4. Carefully trim the growing trees of all broken and 



