faces as bright as stars, as warm as flowers, and their thin 

 wood permits of general and plentiful setting out. The 

 small flowering kinds, with their bushes and bouquets like 

 orange blossoms, are a wonderful sight. Again, they are 

 deciduous and can be placed where thick shade is needed 

 during summer-time and dryness during the cool part of the 

 year. And as their handsome runners permit cutting back 

 and trimming just as fancy dictates, the stands of fluffy seed 

 in fall are again an attraction for the child, equaled only by 

 the Smoketree. If we set out some Hop-roots, let us be 

 careful lest we overstock the place with the runners which 

 are extremely dangerous in their spreading habit. Yet, the 

 vines climb with rapidity and should be set out where little 

 else will succeed, and their handsome fruit-stands are again 

 the furnisher of many pleasant moments for our little ones. 

 Jasminum nudiflorum is a much neglected climber but a very 

 welcome one for our purposes. Could you find a more 

 pleasant duty than to point out to your children the first 

 bloom after winter has lost its severity ? No leaf is about 

 and the greenish wood is barely an indication of life. But 

 those showers of yellow bells, as they hang all over the 

 runners, will be remembered by the child for its future life. 

 Most of the annual vines should be given over to the toy- 

 gardens of our little charges. Instance the Morning-glories. 

 Could we add more description than their names indicate ? 

 Let me say only that the teacher will find great pleasure 

 and arouse renewed and lasting interest, if she will make 

 selection of the different colors and distribute the seed 

 accordingly. Let some tots also have mixed seed and let 



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