. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 640 Home Nature-Study Course. might easily fancy that they were about to enter the home of a local banker. Proper planting has made all the difference. If I were asked to give details how to convert the building, that the children hate and feel like quarreling with, into one of which they would be proud, I should lay out a plan that might be carried on by the children for a series of years. The first step would be to estab
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 640 Home Nature-Study Course. might easily fancy that they were about to enter the home of a local banker. Proper planting has made all the difference. If I were asked to give details how to convert the building, that the children hate and feel like quarreling with, into one of which they would be proud, I should lay out a plan that might be carried on by the children for a series of years. The first step would be to establish a good lawn. A good lawn can be had only on good soil and good soil is composed of an ample supply of humus added to stone flour (see suggestions to teachers, page 35, New Series No. 3). We must accept conditions as we find them and if not up to all requirements >ve must remedy them. • •'i*ar^»*«t«P» -?•'.. Bare and cheerless for lock of trees and shrubs. PLANTING OF TREKS. Selection. The mo'^t i)o])ular is the hard ma])lc. Whether it is the best or not depends on circumstances. A serious drawljack is its slow growth. I know a roadside row of hard maples planted sixteen years ago that now have a diameter of per- haps four inches when measured four feet from the ground. The soil is fertile enough to give a yield of three tons of Concord grapes per acre. I know of another row planted twenty-eight years ago that has not been maltreated by the telephone men that arc only about six inches in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?], 1900-1910. James B. Lyon, State printer)
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