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Problems — 



What is the best way to plant fall bulbs? 



How may we have flowers in our room next winter? 



3. Vine crops, such as cucumber, melons, summer and winter squash, 



pumpkin, pollination of their blossoms; grape vine. 

 Problems — 



How do the flowers of the pumpkin differ from each other? 



Which of these fruits makes the best food? 



How may some of these be stored for winter use? 



In what respects are these fruits alike in structure? 



4. Some common weeds of the garden; such as mallow, pigweed, 



lamb's quarters, purslane, quackgrass. Their identification 



and control. 

 Problems — 



What are the most common weeds that grow in the garden? 



How may they be identified? 



How may each of these weeds be controlled? 



5. Fruit trees and their fruits. 



Apple, plum (both wild and cultivated), cherry (both wild and 

 cultivated). 

 Problems — 



How many different kinds of apples are there that grow around here? 

 How do the cultivated plum and cherry differ from the wild? 

 What harm is done to apple trees and apples by insects? 

 How may these insects be controlled? 



II. Plants in Nature's Garden. 



1. Vines; such as bittersweet, climbing buckwheat, clematis, wild 



cucumber, wild morning glory, wild grape, poison ivy, wild 

 peanut, moonseed, smilax, woodbine. 

 Calendar of coloring and fall of leaves of vines both wild and cul- 

 tivated. 

 Problems — 



How may the wild vines be told apart? 

 Which of these vines have features which make them suitable for 



planting in the home grounds? 

 How do vines climb? 



2. Flowerless plants. 



Mosses and lichens. 

 Problems — 



How do mosses differ from lichens? 



3. Tree fruits still hanging on trees; such as ash, catalpa, cones of 



evergreens, red cedar, coffee tree, hornbeam, ironwood, box 

 elder, linden, locust, sugar maple. Dispersal of tree fruits. 

 Problem — 



What trees may be identified by means of the fruit hanging on them? 



How are these tree fruits adapted for dispersal? 



