304 AGRICULTURE 



School Grounds. Young gardeners may do much to make 

 school grounds attractive. Of course, a playground is needed, 

 and it should not be encumbered with shrubs and flower beds. 

 But the schoolhouse may be shaded with trees, bare corners may 

 be beautified with shrubs and flowers, and outbuildings may be 

 screened with vines. Flowers should be planted in beds and 

 borders, and trees and shrubs should be set in groups, with the 

 larger ones at the back. Among desirable trees, shrubs, and 

 vines are the elm, linden, oak, and maple, dogwood, lilac, and 

 snowball, ivy, Virginia creeper, and morning-glory. 



Landscape Gardening. Study attractive and unattractive 

 grounds, and try to understand the reasons for the difference in 

 appearance. " Two trees and six shrubs, a scrap of lawn, and 

 a dozen plants may form either a beautiful little picture or a 

 huddled disarray" of forms and colors. Landscape gardening is 

 an art that makes pictures with grass and trees and other natural 

 objects instead of with pencil and brush. If we wish to secure 

 good results, we must have a plan, the simpler the better, and 

 a picture in our minds of the result we wish to obtain. We must 

 be sure to plant the right things in the right place and in the 

 right way. 



