50 ARBOR DAY 



of the grounds so much may be done to please the eye 

 or gratify the taste. Oftentimes what might appear 

 to parents, or even teachers and committees, as 

 blemishes, are transformed by childish imagination 

 to " things of beauty and a joy forever." 



One way in which the taste of the child for self- 

 activity can be utilized and made to contribute 

 to the common notion of utility is by the cultivation 

 of the "school garden." 



Fortunately we have not reached the point where 

 many of our school-houses have such contracted 

 grounds that they furnish no opportunity for such 

 a venture, and they are indeed few and far 

 between to whom such a possession would not 

 become a source of constant delight and of sub- 

 sequent profit. 



In all our city and village schools the school garden 

 affords a field for the cultivation of a truer taste for 

 color, as well as a realistic sense of the useful and 

 practical. 



Let this Arbor Day prove that past lessons in 

 shrubs and flowers, together with all information 

 relative to bird and insect life, have been sown on 

 good ground and are bearing fruit many fold. The 

 day may come sooner than we expect when the key 

 to solve many of the problems that beset us may be 

 furnished by some one, now a child, whose love for 

 this class of ideas will be surely traced to Arbor Day 

 and its celebration. 



