68 ARBOR DAY 



school garden affords facilities not to be approached 

 in field excursions. Field excursions offer discon- 

 nected fragments of the history of natural objects, 

 while the school garden furnishes opportunities for 

 observing plants from seed time to harvest. 



A PLEA 



BY HENRY VAN DYKE 



Do NOT rob or mar a tree, unless you really need 

 what it has to give you. Let it stand and grow in 

 virgin majesty, ungirdled and unscarred, while the 

 trunk becomes a firm pillar of the forest temple, and 

 the branches spread abroad a refuge of bright green 

 leaves for the birds of the air. 



IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS 



BY PROF. L. H. BAILEY 



ONE'S training for the work of life is begun in 

 the home and fostered in the school. This training 

 is the result of a direct and conscious effort on the part 

 of the parent and teacher, combined with the indirect 

 result of the surroundings in which the child is placed. 

 The surroundings are more potent than we think, 

 and they are usually neglected. It is probable 

 that the antipathy to farm life is often formed before 



