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plant will live to grow up, so give them plenty of room. 

 In a small school yard, you will not find it possible to 

 group the trees; better plant them in a row along the 

 rear and side fence and along the street at the front. 

 The beautiful effect obtained by irregular grouping, you 

 must make with the larger shrubs, and not too many of 

 them for you will constantly bear in mind that the play- 

 ground is none too large at best. The lilacs, sumachs, 

 snowballs, syringas, etc., may be planted about five feet 

 apart in the group, putting the higher growing ones such 

 as the lilacs and sumachs at the rear and lower ones in 

 front. 



WHAT WILL YOU PLANT ? 



First of all, do not ask the nurseryman for anything 

 this year. See what you can do with familiar material at 

 hand and later on when your success is apparent send for 

 a few choice trees or shrubs. 



I do not know in what section of the state your school 

 house may stand, and so I cannot tell you to take this or 

 that particular tree, shrub or vine, but I can say this: 

 On your fathers farm or in the woodlands you may per- 

 haps find as much material and fully as beautiful as that 

 often secured from the nursery. Perhaps you haven't 

 had your eyes opened to the beauty of the simple things 

 about you. If so begin at once to hunt for them. There 

 are wild vines whose flowers would be counted beautiful 

 if they grew in your mother's garden, and not in your 

 father's corn field. The wild morning glory is a good 

 example of this. There are trees and shrubs in the wood- 

 lot and along the creek that would grace the most beau- 

 tiful lawn if rightly placed. This then is the idea, to use 

 what lies next your hand, and by skillful arrangement 

 bring out its particularly beautiful features. You may 



