L. L. MAY & CO 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
gardening. These cities have, between them, used various 
methods, some have had public lectures on gardening, others 
have hired expert gardeners to give courses in practical^ gar- 
dening, stereoptican views have figured largely in the training 
of the children and apparently no means of encouraging them 
has been neglected. 
The possibilities of this movement seem to be limitless 
in all directions, and that it is educators and citizen-makers 
that recognize them, is one of the surest proofs of their 
soundness. 
SHRUBS AND TREES FOR THE CHILDREN'S GARDENS. 
While seeds and their growing form the principal part 
of the children's garden, shrubs and trees are by no means 
uninteresting in development. In the school garden, they may 
flourish in the border land to be devoted to perennials, and 
are quite necessary to complete the agricultural lessons that 
the school garden aims to inculcate, or, they may be used 
effectively to beautify the school yard, to hide ugly corners, 
or unsightly views, and will make the school building a thing 
of beauty, to the influence of which the impressionable little 
minds will ably respond. 
In this connection, too, we would 
urge the sowing of lawn grass, where school lawns are patchy 
and moth-eaten in appearance. The children's pride in a 
park-like school yard will more than compensate for time or 
expenditure involved. 
But to return to shrubs and trees. In the home garden 
they are a necessary and ever increasing delight. Apple 
trees in the back yard will give blossom, fruit and shade in 
increasing proportion as the years go on. Instead of an ugly 
backyard fence, a hedge, that will need no repairing but grow 
higher and thicker every year, will give romantic seclusion to 
the garden, and privacy, not to be invaded by mischievous 
boys who cannot climb over, or penetrate its thorny fastnesses. 
Easpberry bushes, currants and etc., — it is surprising how 
much fruit a few small bushes will yield, enough to furnish 
a moderate sized family during the entire season. 
In the front lawn, or in the garden, heavy headed lilacs 
are purple, long before the first flowers are in blossom, and 
