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not succeed at this with the first trial. Few do, but you 

 will be growing familiar with the plants in your neigh- 

 borhood, learning their best points and how to make the 

 most of them. There is another thing in favor of using 

 your native plants and that is that they are accustomed 

 to your locality and will usually do better than strangers 

 brought in from other and different soils and climate. 

 But it must be remembered that there is often one serious 

 obstacle to the use of native grown trees and shrubs. 

 They usually grow in the forest or thicket and conse- 

 quently are long and spindling, unused to sun and wind 

 and difficult to transplant since they have few fibrous 

 Toots. Nursery grown trees usually have an abundance 

 of fibrous roots, have stems used to sun and exposure and 

 have clean straight bodies and so are more likely to give 

 satisfaction. 



Perhaps the first thing you should decide upon when 

 making up your list of things to plant is this — Are you 

 planting for your own pleasure only, or as well for that 

 of the classes who will come after you? If you are 

 planting for the present only, you would better confine 

 all your work to the school garden, or at the most, put in 

 a border of annuals or some quick-growing shrubs here 

 and there. However, if you wish the school grounds to 

 be pleasing year after year you will do best to plant no 

 annuals except in the garden proper, and elsewhere put 

 trees and shrubs that will be a delight as long as they 

 continue in their places (provided they are well treated 

 and remain in a healthy condition). At this point it is 

 well to remember that only the sturdiest and best formed 

 trees and shrubs should be selected for transplanting into 

 your school yard. A weakly, bent young tree will never 

 make a desirable, mature specimen. It is well, too, to 



