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Problems — 



What birds prefer to live near wet places? 



Of what use are the birds of the meadows and fields to us? 



Which is the most valuable of these birds? 



What habits of these birds are specially interesting to us? 



What kind of a nesting box can we make so as to get a pair of robins 



or phoebes to nest in it? 

 How are birds grouped according to the time that they stay with us? 

 Let us try to follow on a map the travels of a bobolink for a year. 

 What are the chief enemies of birds? 

 What is the Audubon Society doing to protect birds? (See type, 



lesson page 166.) 

 What can we in our Audubon club do to protect birds? 

 What are our state and national governments doing to protect birds? 



III. Gardening. Main topic: vines and vine crops. 



1 . Schoolroom gardening. 



A. Early in the spring plant indoors or in a hotbed a few seeds 



from the lists given below, so that the seedlings may 

 later be transplanted to the home or school gardens. 



B. Study of plant activities (to be answered by experiments.) 



a. Effect of light on direction of growth of stem and 



leaves. 



b. Effect of water on direction of growth of roots. 



c. Effect of gravity on the direction of growth of stem and 



root. 



d. How the squash seedling gets out of the seed coat. 



e. Difference in the development of the seed leaves in the 



seedling of pumpkin and pea. 

 Problems — 



How may we have early flowers and vegetables in our gardens? 

 What is the difference between a cold frame and hot bed? 

 What effect do light, water, and gravity have on the direction in 

 which the parts of a plant grow? 



2. School garden. 



A. Plant seeds of some of the annual vines such as balloon vine, 



hyacinth, bean, canary bird flower, cypress vine, gourds 

 Japanese hop, moon flower, climbing nasturtium, 

 morning glory, sweet peas. 



B. Plant some seeds of the vine crops such as melons, pumpkin, 



cucumber, winter and summer squash. 



C. Plant summer flowering bulbs such as tuberose, gladiolus, 



dahlia. 



3. Home gardens. 



A. Distribute Cleveland order envelopes for penny packets of 

 seeds. 



