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HINTS FOR THE FIRST SCHOOL GARDEN 



Edith G. Alger 72 



FOREST CULTURE Horace Greeley 74 



CRIMINAL TREATMENT OF TREES . 76 



KNOW THE TREES Austin C. Apgar 79 



THE A B C OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 79 



Do AND DON'T 80 



SUGGESTIONS FOR ARBOR DAY OBSERVANCE 



Alfred Stone 8l 



IV 

 THE SEASON 



PIPPA'S SONG Robert Browning 87 



HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD . Robert Browning 87 



THE WISTFUL DAYS . Robert Underwood Johnson 88 



SPRING Alfred Tennyson 89 



GOD OF THE OPEN AIR (a selection) . Henry van Dyke 90 



NEWS OF SPRING .... Maurice Maeterlinck 91 



SPRING Richard Hovey 93 



APRIL John Burroughs 99 



APRIL Henry Wadswortb Longfellow 104 



THE COMING OF SPRING . Hans Christian Andersen 105 

 "WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES" 



J. W. Riley 108 



THE FIRST OF APRIL .... Mortimer Collins 109 



SONG: A MAY MORNING John Milton no 



SPRING MAGIC Charles Dickens no 



WHY YE BLOSSOME COMETH . . . Oliver H erf ord in 



SPRING Andrew Lang 112 



THE RETURN OF SPRING 



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 113 



