IMPROVEMENT OF GROUNDS 71 



money, for the schoolyard. You will find them in 

 the woods, in old yards, along fences. It is little 

 matter if no one knows their names. What is hand- 

 somer than a tangled fence-row? 



Scatter in a few trees along the fence and about 

 the buildings. Maples, basswood, elms, ashes, 

 buttonwood, pepperidge, oaks, beeches, birches, 

 hickories, poplars, a few trees of pine or spruce or 

 hemlock any of these are excellent. If the country 

 is bleak, a rather heavy planting of evergreens above 

 the border, in the place of so much shrubbery, is 

 excellent. 



For shrubs, use the common things to be found 

 in the woods and swales, together with roots which 

 can be had in every old yard. Willows, osiers, 

 witch-hazel, dogwood, wild roses, thorn apples, haws, 

 elders, sumac, wild honeysuckles these and others 

 can be found in every school district. From the 

 farmyards can be secured snowballs, spireas, lilacs, 

 forsythias, mock-oranges, roses, snowberries, bar- 

 berries, flowering currants, honeysuckles, and 

 the like. 



Vines can be used to excellent purpose on the 

 outbuildings or on the school-house itself. The 

 common wild Virginia creeper is the most serviceable. 



Kinds of Plants for Decoration Against these 

 heavy borders and in the angles about the building 

 many kinds of flowering plants can be grown. The 

 flowers are much more easily cared for in such 



