TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
erage school yard has room for only three or four trees, this exercise 
hus to be given up or the yard is soon over-crowded. Plantings of 
shrubs about the foundations of the school house, along the prop- 
erty bounds and in front of out-buildings may well supplement or 
take the place of tree plantings. Such shrubs should preferably be 
of native species collected from the fields by the students. The 
best plan is to grow them a year in the school garden nursery before 
Two Acre ScHoot GROUNDS 
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transplanting to permanent situations. More elaborate schemes 
of so-called ornamental planting on school grounds are to be viewed 
with suspicion. Flower beds in the front lawn rarely yield any- 
thing more than disappointment, and not much of that. 
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