244 LESSONS I\ A<;K!< ULTURE 



Free Bulletins, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 

 No. 94. The Vegetable Garden. 



No. 154. The Home Fruit Garden: Preparation and Care. 

 No. 156. The Home Vineyard, with Special Reference to 

 Northern Conditions. 



No. 198. Strawberries. 

 No. 213. Raspberries. 



LESSON LXXI 



BEAUTIFYING HOME AND SCHOOL GROUNDS 



During this month we shall plant trees, shrubs, and 

 other ornamental plants about our home grounds. Ear- 

 lier in the season, and in plenty of time for planting, 

 we should have ordered our stock from some reliable 

 house, and when the plants arrive, we should plant 

 them at once. Our home grounds on the farm, as 

 shown in Lesson I, contain about two acres. See prac- 

 tical exercises and problems for further plans. 



Beautiful home grounds. It does not require wealth 

 nor rare plants to beautify the home or school grounds. 

 With little expense, good taste, a knowledge of the 

 above principles, and a willingness to work, the homes 

 and schools of our country could be made more at- 

 tractive and more natural. The woods are full of wild 

 shrubs and flowers that could be growing on our home 

 and school grounds, if we would only transplant them 

 there. On Arbor day every school should revive the in- 

 terest of the community in tree planting and other 

 means of beautifying the home grounds. Back yards 

 with barren ground covered with old tin cans and broken 

 down chicken coops are not the surroundings in which 

 boys and girls can grow up into beautiful and useful 



