SHADE TREES AND EVERGREENS 
girl told her mother, when asked what she did at 
recess: “I watched the old man cut the hedge. I 
like to do that better than play tag. We all help 
him a good bit.” The children that grow up there 
will have that straight, neat, clean hedge as a part, 
and a valuable part, of their education. 
EDUCATE THE PEOPLE OF YOUR 
COMMUNITY 
Anyone who plants is preparing an object-lesson 
for the neighborhood, whether the shade trees and 
the hedge are at a private residence or on public 
land. There is no surer or better way to make a 
neighborhood attractive than to plant hedges and 
trees. Do not wait for someone else to act, but do 
your part now. Plant your own grounds, and do 
some planting “on your own hook” in the school- 
grounds, or in any other public land near. 
If you own a farm, by all means line the roadside 
with trees. Norway Maples are fine for this, though 
there are other good shade trees. Apple and Pear 
trees also are hard to beat. Make it one of your 
aims to educate the people of your neighborhood 
to good planting, and to what constitutes a clean¬ 
looking community. You can do this at very 
little expense to yourself, and without any one’s 
(Upper) A “yardful” of Evergreens and Maples, about twenty trees in 
all, worth $20 in big planting sizes. (Lower) Home in Berlin (rectory of 
lower church, page 19) with fine hedge and Maples. Four trees and one 
hundred yards of hedge would cost only about $i 5 * 
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