REFERENCES 333 



7. Should a farmer maintain a flower garden? 8. Is it good taste to 

 have the central part of the lawn occupied with flower beds? 9. Ex- 

 plain the care a lawn should receive. 



HOME EXERCISES 



1. A home flower garden exercise should be started by the girls. 

 It is best not to use more than a few varieties of flowers. Perhaps 

 one would do. Start a sweet pea, aster, hollyhock, or some other 

 flower-growing contest. Exhibit the flowers. Write a story on 

 " How I kept my flower garden." 



2. Make a list of all the ornamental plants that are grown at home. 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. The teacher should draw a common type of yard on the board 

 and use it to explain the reasons for different types of ornamental 

 plants here or there. It might be helpful if each pupil were to sketch 

 his own yard and garden on the board, and try to indicate the kind 

 of ornamental planting most suitable. Suggestions should be given 

 by the teacher. 



2. Pupils should be taught to take notes of the best-kept yards in 

 the community or at places where they may visit. 



REFERENCES 



Landscape Gardening. Waugh. 

 How to Plant the Home Grounds. Parsons. 

 In God's Out of Doors. Quayle. 

 Farmers' Bulletin. 



134. Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds. 



185. Beautifying the Home Grounds. 



494. Lawns and Lawn Soils. 



