from the grocer's sack are these nuts, especially when dots 

 for eyes and mouth are added and a whole little face tucked 

 within this natural bonnet. 



Of bushes of less dimensions than those enumerated which 

 bear also attractive fruit-stands, I mention the following. 

 Brier Roses are pleasing through their bloom, their bright 

 'colored hips and also -through their delightful odor. Rosa 

 pomifera should be resurrected from its forgottenness and 

 be set out oftener even than the Japanese Rosa rugosa. 

 Purple Fringe, or Smoke Tree, is attractive through its 

 strangeness in foliage as well as in fruit-stand, yet a child 

 will always be unconsciously impressed as if those were a 

 foreign element in its garden. Spindle-tree might well be 

 set out, though of secondary importance. Snowberries are 

 very acceptable, the more so as they fill in spaces and corners, 

 shady and forbidding, where hardly any other shrub will 

 succeed. 



In the golden leaved Elder we have the best opportunity 

 of introducing a color of foliage which is permissible with 

 this variety. It forms a bright object and, aside from the 

 fruit of the bush, the pith of the boughs offers material for 

 many pretty toys. Staphylea might be mentioned as of 

 secondary value. 



In the so-called Duck-plant and in Colutea we have some 

 of the most enticing objects a kindergarten should possess. 

 The former (Sutherlandia) will do well only in warm climes, 

 and in cold regions should be planted out under glass in all 

 of those places where a greenhouse can be added. Its hollow 

 fruit-bags assume the shape of a veritable duck, bill and tail 



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