COUNTRY SCHOOL GROUNDS 
of twenty to thirty feet back from the road is usually satisfactory. 
Where practicable one good shade tree, — maple, oak, or elm, — 
should be placed twelve to twenty feet to the south of the school 
house, and another similar tree the same distance to the southwest. 
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The shadows of these trees falling on the building, will do more than 
any other one thing to relieve that appearance of forlorn nakedness 
and utter crudity so depressing in the average school house. Where- 
ever conditions permit much can be gained also by having a narrow 
border — three to six feet wide —of shrubbery along the house 
foundations. Usually these borders should be of native species 
collected from adjoining fields by school pupils. 
Other Buildings: As a rule the disgusting limit is reached in 
the insanitary outbuildings of the country school grounds. The 
disgrace of this condition is so commonly felt that no argument 
against it need now be made. The sanitaries should be placed at 
the back line of the lot, in which case they should either be separated 
by a fence or should be at the outside corners with the width of the 
lot between them. They should be screened from view by plantings 
of native shrubbery. In certain cases it is better to group the sani- 
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