Issued under Chap- 

 ter 430, Laws of 

 1899. 



I. P. ROBERTS, 



Director. 



Junior Naturalist Club. 

 Lesson II. 



NOVEIMBER, 1899. 



PREPAKED BY 



THE BUREAU OF NATURE-STUDY, 



College of Agriculture, Cornell University, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



THE STORY AN APPLE TREE CAN THLL. 



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It was the morning after All Hallowe'en that I wandered into 

 the orchard and stood beneath the tree where the children had 

 played mimic life during the vacation days. It had been the scene 

 for picnics, high teas, receptions and doll parties, with some of the 

 strife and friction of real society. The soap box, with a board 

 through the middle for a shelf, that was a combination of china 



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