HARDY SHRUBS 
positively identified with their proper names. The pupil should 
then make an extended notebook recording the height to which 
they grow, time of flowering, character of flowers and foliage, soil 
requirements and any other practical information which may come 
to light. 
Every school grounds and college campus should have, as 
a matter of course, a good collection of trees and shrubs planted 
partly with a view to teaching of this sort. But every good teacher 
will extend his instruction far beyond the home campus, and will 
visit the best parks, private grounds and nurseries within reach. 
Equally detailed and careful attention should also, as a matter of 
course, be given to the study of native materials growing in the wild. 
Readings 
Bailey’s “‘Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture,” invaluable at 
many other points, is particularly useful for its descriptions of shrubs. 
The catalogs of good nurseries constitute about the best litera- 
ture available in this field and every teacher should collect a supply 
for his classes. 
Kirkegaard’s “Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Herbaceous Perennials,” 
Boston, 1912, is a specially handy reference work. 
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