THE STUDY OF HORTICULTURE. 



BY J. C. BLAIR, 



"^J^^J^F^pessbr of Pomology and Chief in Horticulture, University of Illinois. 



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Taylorville, Illinois, March, 1903. 



THE PLANTING OF SCHOOL GROUNDS. 



There are two objects to be attained in the planting of school 

 grounds — the making of a picture and the raising of plants for 

 study.. — Country Life. 



I have dared to hope that you have been sufficiently 

 interested in the work suggested in the past lessons to 

 make your preparation for this year's Arbor Day a little 

 better than ever before. I know, of course, that you have 

 not neglected planting something or other each year by 

 way of celebrating this only holiday in which horticul- 

 ture has a full showing, but it is as necessary to make defi- 

 nite plans for the planting of trees and other ornamental 

 plants as it was to plan the school garden. That is why this 

 lesson follows the one on ''The School Garden"'. You will 

 remember that another lesson on the garden was to follow 

 the last one, but in that way our Arbor Day plans were 

 going to be too late for use this year, so it was deemed 

 best to postpone the second garden lesson a month. 



MAKING THE PLAN. 



I do not know just what plans you have carried out 

 on other Arbor Days. Perhaps in some schools they 

 were like that one of which I heard the other day. The 

 teacher told me about it in order to show me just what 

 could be accomplished in an emergency. It was fourteen 

 years ago that she began a spring term of school, just two 

 days before the first celebration of Arbor Day was to take 

 place in that district. A letter received from the super- 



