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Lombardy, Carolina, silver leaf poplars, with the quaking aspen 

 and deep toothed aspen made the rest of this group. 



The ash chart only showed black white and blue. Red and 

 green might have been provided had the two boys labored as did 

 the three girls on the oak committee. 



Hickory, walnut, butternut, and bitternut leaves and fruit made 

 up this group. A more energetic committee would have also 

 secured pignut. 



Fruits were well represented by wild and tame varieties. These 

 belonged to the rose and mulberry families. Osage orange was 

 grouped with the mulberries. 



Leaf clusters in no sense did justice to the elm family including 

 the American or white, cork, slippery and hackberry. 



Locusts, black and honey, with redbud and coffee tree com- 

 posed another group. To this was added Hercules' Club so that 

 the three doubly compound leaves were all exhibited. 



Two miscellaneous charts were needed for unclassified groups. 

 These included mountain ash and oak leafed mountain ash, tulip, 

 catalpa, gingko, horse chestnut, linden, sycamore and magnolia. 

 Pawpaw and hornbeam might have been added. 



Leaves were dipped in parafine or pressed before mounting. 

 Specimens were glued or sewed on securely so the charts are dura- 

 ble. Already other grades have borrowed or consulted the collec- 

 tion. 



No attempt was made to classify the trees which were not 

 deciduous. A rival seventh grade is already making plans to 

 classify the evergreen trees. 



Twenty-five Thousand Dollars to Aid Teachers in 



Bird-Study 



T. Gilbert Pearson 



Last year the pupils engaged in the Junior Audubon Classes 

 numbered more than 115,000, and represented every State in the 

 Union and some of the distant territories, as Alaska, Hawaii, and 

 Porto Rico, and many Canadian Provinces. The plan and method 

 of the Association are as follows: Any teacher or other person 

 who pleases may form a Junior Audubon Class, of ten pupils or 



