THE ARBOR DAY LADY 
49 
NURSERY BEDS 
All school teachers should arrange for 
their boys and girls to have a reserve corner 
of the grounds for a nursery bed—in which 
to plant tree seedlings and study their 
growth. 
When these have grown beyond the 
bounds of the bed, they should be given the 
graduating students that they may plant them 
upon this occasion. 
Those that do very well are beech, maple, 
oak, pine and shagbark. 
In large cities a town forest should be pro¬ 
vided, a tract of land, wherein all the schools 
may gather together and contribute each 
year. 
Trees and birds are interdependent. 
Birds feed upon the destructive insects which 
pray upon the leaves. Many birds devote 
their time going up and down the trunks of 
trees, getting many destructive bores and 
eggs having been laid in the crevices. 
