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made from the list which the pupils have offered and in 

 this way the material can be secured with almost no ex- 

 pense to any one. 



WHERE TO PLANT. 



After the plan of the school yard has been drawn 

 upon the blackboard — the next step is to decide just how 

 far the plans already made on paper can be carried out in 

 order that all the best views both in the yard and at a 

 distance may be kept in sight and all the ugly things 

 hidden by a mass of foliage. 



Your school house* itself is or should be the best 

 feature in the yard, so do not plant anything directly in 

 front of it or scattered about the lawn, for in the school 

 yard of all places, one law of landscape gardening should 

 be kept. This is the law: Keep the center of the lawn 

 free from planting, even of flowers, and place trees and 

 shrubs along the border of the grounds. You must re- 

 member that just as a room would look cluttered if too 

 much filled with furniture, so a lawn will be made untidy 

 or spotty looking if too much lawn furniture such as 

 bushes and trees are used. 



In a school yard there is still another reason for not 

 doing too much planting of a scattered sort and it is a 

 reason I am sure you will appreciate. Who likes to play 

 ball or blind-man's buff among a network of tree trunks ? 



Place some smaller shrubs along the foundation of 

 the school house, if the soil is of a fair quality, and the 

 water from the eaves will not drown out the plants. 



At the rear of the school house and at that side from 

 which the severest winds come, place along the fence the 

 largest growing trees — elms, maples, etc. Eemember 

 not to crowd. Thirty-five feet apart is none too much 

 for elms when mature and you hope that the ones you 



