P/ViVK AND CEMETEIVY 
IX 
Gardens in Europe” tells us that Leipsir, 
in Germany, in 1888, at the instigation 
of the principals of its school, donated 
400 square metres (478.4 square yards) 
of ground to each new school for botan- 
ical purposes, and set aside for garden- 
ing purposes a plot of ground, whose 
area is 12,000 square yards, “which is 
surrounded by forests, exposed to the 
sun, and watered by the River Pleisse, 
and conveniently located.” This garden 
is open daily, with the exception of 
Sundays and holidays, from morning 
until evening. The teacher has suffi- 
cient opportunity to take his classes to 
the garden, to acquaint the pupils with 
the flora and impress upon their minds 
the natural growth of every useful and 
poisonous plant. The teachers have a 
right to take from the garden such ma- 
terial as they may want for demonstra- 
tion in the class-rooms. It is possible 
for anyone interested in the study of 
botany to obtain, free of charge, speci- 
mens from the school garden. In order 
to encourage visits to the garden, the 
school board distributes a circular about 
every two weeks, containing a list of 
such plants as are in bloom, or have 
some interesting feature to be observed. 
There is a head gardener and eleven 
assistants. Most of the assistant gar- 
deners are women. A teacher has charge 
of the pedagogic side of the work. 
Even in Russia, not to speak of other 
countries in Europe, no school can re- 
ceive State funds unless it has a garden 
connected with it. There are to-day 
more than 100,000 school gardens in 
Europe, according to Hemenway. We 
Americans are accused of thinking only 
of the almighty dollar — of being intense- 
ly utilitarian. If that be true, then why 
do we permit our children to grow up in 
ignorance of plant life, when 65 per cent 
of our exports are farm products ? — 
Gustave Straub enmuller, in School 
Work. 
“Practical Assistance to Tree Plant- 
ers” is the title of Circular No. 22 is- 
sued by the Bureau of Forestry explain- 
ing in detail the nature of the assist- 
ance given by the Bureau to land owners 
in establishing commercial forest plant- 
ations, shelter belts, windbreaks and 
snowbreaks and in reclaiming shifting 
sands and other waste lands by forest 
planting. Circular No. 21 is a similar 
pamphlet describing the “Practical As- 
sistance to Farmers, Lumbermen, and 
others in Handling Forest Lands.” 
“The School That Built a Town,” by 
Walter H. Page, is a leaflet issued by 
the Massachusetts Civic League as one 
of a series of short articles bearing upon 
different phases of local improvement 
work issued with the object of being 
Our Work In IMetal 
Is produced under die personal and 
exclusive direction of die members 
of die firm — diose most interested 
in maintaining its present standard. 
It is made by men thoroughly 
trained in their respective trades 
and whose experience in our par- 
ticular line has been adequate. 
€|| If you will send us your name, 
and express an interest m what we 
make, even tho you have no im- 
mediate intention of buying, we 
will mail you illustrated matter 
from time to time to keep you 
posted on what we are doing. 
€|| Some new bulletins all showing 
work suitable for Parks, Ceme- 
teries and Country Places, are as 
follows: 
Benches for Gardens, - 402 
Stable Fittings, etc., - 422 
Lamp Posts and Lamps, 462 
Entranceways and Gates, 482 
Country Estate Fencing, 512 
IVe send them FREE. 
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102 North St.. SPRINGFIELD. O. 
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If your dealers have not them, here is the 
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Linings and Earth Covers 
furnish the neatest and best decora- 
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Cemetery 
Records 
for recording 
INTERMENTS, 
LOT OWNERS, 
LOCATION OF 
GRAVES 
Send for Specimen 
pages 
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324 Dearborn St. 
Chicago. 
EVERGREENS 
For Parks, Landscape Gardening, Cemeteries, 
Home Grounds and Farms. Special attention 
called to the highly ornamental 
COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 
of which we are large growers. Also Balsam 
Fir, Norway Spruce, White Pine, Arbor Vitae, 
etc. They have the roots, size and shape to 
reset and grow. Hoyt’s Evergreens are Sure 
Growers. Send for list. Car lots a specialty. 
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