JULY 6 
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MAKING HIS JACK. 
EDOEllTOS. 
••I'fct, make jny Jack !" said Farmer Brown, 
“I’ll plow this field and sow It down 
in season, all to wliea'; 
I'll lift t -e in rt ago from our land. 
I’ll dross our folks up fin* and grand, 
And spare not what we eat.’’ 
Suiting his action to the word. 
His ground was most Completely stirred 
And put In “ splendid whack 
He harrowed, smoothed and rolled it welt, 
And when ’twas finished said, •• Well, well, 
I’m bound to make my Jack !” 
The drill nmle coxy little drains 
In which were Blattered golden grains 
Of Fudzo-ciawson wheat; 
And all his humlred-acr Held 
Gave promls of abundant yield— 
In fact, ’lwas hard to beat. 
And Brown felt most exceeding good, 
To think that such a chance he stood 
For making now hi - Jack; 
And well he might, for Hr uvu. of late, 
Had grown u little out of date — 
Was eulled " a leellt slaek.” 
But, like some other men we know, 
Brown failed to go the least bit slow, 
But traded on his ehunce; 
His prospects he considered cash, 
He gave Ills Credit nag t he lash, 
And mad j her fairly prance. 
In simple Justice, be It said, 
That they were not a lie-abed 
And good-for-nothing set. 
The Browns had not a lazy bone ; 
Their faults Were of a different tone— 
They had no fear of debt. 
They skinned their rabbit ere ’twas“cotched," 
Their chickens c tinted ere they hatched, 
And all such foolish things; 
Of course, there oft occurred a slip 
Betwixt the cup anil old Brown’s lip, 
As such work always brings. 
His crop of wheat, like all the rest, 
Was food for every Insect pest 
The season brought and gave ; 
His mortgage, now fast fulling due, 
Instead of paving he’ll renew— 
His "Jack" proved only •'Knave." 
THE ORNAMENTATION OF COUNTRY 
SCHOOL GROUNDS. 
UNCLE MAKK. 
The Rural lias said ranch, from time to 
tim», on the importance of ornamenting 
school-groan Is, belie ving that it is a matter 
worthy of better attention than it has been 
accustomed to receive. The school boy of 
twenty or thirty years ago saw naught attrac¬ 
tive its miny do not mw) ah tut the old 
school house and its surroundings, and if he 
now has p'easant m mimes of school days, 
thev m 1 st rest on sountning els* than on well 
ordered lawns, graceful trees and beautiful 
fl jwers. But there is, we are glad to believe, 
a tendency to depirt from these ancient 
ustgss, and to give the B tiutiful in nature its 
plate in the elucition of our youth. The 
culture of flowering plants and shrubs, and 
the training of graceful shale trees, has been 
too long negle’teiin these places, and thus 
their eleva'ing influences, their lessons of wis¬ 
dom and beauty hive been lost, at least to 
many school boys and girls. 
At a recent meeting of ihe Western New 
York Horticultural Soicety, the late Mr. Vick 
Figure 216. 
was called upon to speak on the Improve¬ 
ment and embellishment of school grounds. 
He thought the object of our schools is to 
make our children men and women; such 
men and women as we want them to bsc *rae. 
If our school grounds are barren and weedy, 
they have their infl tence iu forming the char¬ 
acter of our children. Our children, when at 
school, should have pleas uit play grounds. 
He had sent seeds to many schools, free. A 
teacher once wrote him, asking what she could 
do to make her school yard attractive. He 
wrote her, sending her a dollar’s worth of 
seeds, telling her to set her children to work, 
and, a* she was good at sketching, to make a 
sketch of her grounds then, and after the 
seeds had grown. She did so, and the two 
sketches ( * hieh we present at Figs, 216 aud 217) 
were offered in lieu of extended remarks. 
Mr. Vick, who ever had the true interests 
of the young people at heart, saw how he 
could do a good thing fur them by adding to 
the attractiveness of school-grounds, so, not 
long previous to his death, he made the liberal 
offei* to send free a collection of 12 varieties 
THE AURAL mw- YOBKIR.' 
of seed to the five districts in each county in 
every State tint should first apply for them, 
for cultivation in the school grounds. But 
he was not alone in this work, for other seeds¬ 
men have been supplementing and aiding the 
cause in a similar way. The Michigan Hor¬ 
ticultural Society was. we believe, the first to 
take aggressive steps in this direction, and 
through the effl dent labors of its Secretary its 
efforts have ueen crowned with deserved suc¬ 
cess. The W-stera New York Horticultural 
Society has followei in the same line, anl it 
is to be hoped that many, aye all, similar 
organiz itions, may become actively interested 
in this work. 
In order that those who are desirous of doing 
something more to make school attractive (aud 
I am sure that there are many among tuy 
Figure 217. 
young readers who can do so if they will) I 
would suggest the following list of shrubs and 
plants as being well adapted to such uses: 
The Deu^zia—Rose of Sharon—Weigela— 
Philadelphus or Mock Orange—Bart erry’— 
Japan Quince—The Great flowered Hydrangea 
—Viburnum plicatum — Euonymus — Bush 
Honeysuckle—Spirmasin variety--Forsythia - 
Dwarf Catilpa—Lilac- Clematis—Dutchman’s 
Pipe—Monnseed Vine—Virginia Creeper— 
Wistaria—H meysuckle. 
From this list a choice selection may be 
made, suitable for any particular location, 
and in addition to any o’her plants and flowers 
which the teacher may suggest, a very pleas¬ 
ing variety will be obtained By thus leading 
the chtldre t to pi int and care for these things 
which instruct while they adorn; by giving 
brief les-ons in rural art; by instructing in the 
beauties and varieties of such shrubs aud 
flowers, the teacher will inspire in her pupils a 
taste for such decoration, a love for the beau¬ 
tiful in nature, and, iu many ways, interest 
them in the broader subjects pertaining to the 
culture of flowers, shrubs and trees, so that 
when they grow up and have homes of th-ir 
own th»y will have pleasure in making them 
attractive. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
DkAR Uncle Mark:—I have just begun to 
study bo'auy a little tnis Summer, and I like 
it very much. I should think every farmer’s 
boy or girl th at is old euough ought, yes, 
I should think they would be eager, to study 
abmt the fl >wers that are blooming all about 
them, and with their beauty and fragrance 
making life pleasant for them. I have not 
been studying about flowers very long, but I 
have learned already so many tbiogs about 
them that I did not know before. What a 
world of beauty is revealed to me when I put 
the leave- and fliwers under the miscroscope! 
I had never dreamed of such things, and yet 
I know there are still other wonders in store 
for me I am using Gray’s “ First Lessons in 
Botany,” and 1 would advise anyone who 
thinks of taking up the study to learn 
thoroughly the rudiments and first lessons in 
or’er to have all iba names of the different 
parts of the plant and flower at the tongue’s 
end, and also to “make sure” of the botanical 
names of the flowers as we meet them, for this 
will be of importance to us later on. I hope 
the Cousins will begin, if they have not al¬ 
ready, ttiis pleasant study. Your niece, 
Yates Co., N. Y. * Ellen. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—! am a boy about 15 
years of age, aud have always lived on a 
farm. My father differs from many fathers, 
I think, because he gives or sells me lambs, 
calves, poultry, etc , and when we market 
them he gives me the proceeds aud does not 
pocket the money himself. I should think it 
would be enough to discourage any boy to 
have a colt, for instance, given him, aud then 
be obliged to see the money which the colt 
brings when sold go into some other person’s 
pocket. I don’t think it is at all fair! 1 have 
been trying to raise a little lamb whose 
mother was killed by accident, and father said 
he would let me have it if I would care for it 
and feed it. I have done so, and now it is a 
nice, plump lamb, and it goes skipping about 
just a* if it was glad its mother was killed. I 
am going to keep it, and when it gels large 
enough have it’s fleece sheared off and seul to 
market with those my father sends. I think 
every f-trmer’s boy ought to have some such 
pet to raise, but the worst of it is I become so 
much attached to my pets that l hate to sell 
them. Your nephew, Harvey Peters. 
Franklin Co., Pa, 
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