few days. The second season those that are unsuited to the situation 

 because of this or any other reason can be omitted and only those 

 which are satisfactory used. I am not going to tell you which ones 

 are the best, for I want you to find out for yourself. 



I have written this as if the leaflet would come to you in the early 

 spring, and as if you were going immediately to work to make your 

 school yard more beautiful. But it may come to you in the fall, and if 

 it does, you will have to start with other flowers. I would make one 

 bed of the splendid yellow golden rods, and we have twenty-seven dif- 

 ferent kinds of them in the State. Then I would have a bed of asters, 

 of which we have very many, and very beautiful kinds. You know 

 they range in color from white, through blue to deepest purple. As 

 there are thirty-one different kinds of asters in the State, you ought 

 to be able to get twelve or fifteen different kinds for your bed. Both 

 the golden rods and asters are very hardy, bloom freely and keep their 

 beauty for a long time. 



Then off in one corner I would have some wild sunfiowers. Indeed, 

 in the fall you will have no trouble at all in finding plenty of flowers 

 with which to work. Of course, if you are trying to make your school 

 yard beautiful you will keep out weeds, such as the burdock and plan- 

 tain and thistles, not merely because they are not attractive, but 

 because they use the food and water in the soil which you want to go 

 to the other plants. 



I believe it is worth your while to try what I have suggested. If you 

 succeed you will have to study plants in their homes and in this way 

 will find out a great deal about plant life which may afterwards prove 

 of great value to you. Then if you succeed you will begin to have a 

 real pride in the appearance of your school grounds, and when that 

 happens you will find you are also very much interested in your school 

 work. Of course, it means work, but we must always work for any- 

 thing that is worth having. 



