No. 12. 



TEACHER'S LEAFLETS. | January i899 



! By L. H. bailey 



AND 



PREPARED BY C. W. FURLONG. 



FOR USE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE^ 

 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



Issued under Chapter 67, 



of the Laws of 1898. I, p. ROBERTS, piRECTOR. 



I. How the Trees Look in Winter. 



L. H. BAILEY. 



NLY the growing and open season is thought to 



be attractive in the country. The winter is 



bare and cheerless. The trees are naked. 



The flowers are under the snow. The birds 



have flow^n. The only bright and cheery spot 



is the w^inter fireside. But even there the 



farmer has so much time that he does not know 



^/lA^?^*' what to do with it. Only those who have little 



:lu^^"^ time, appreciate its value. 



But the winter is not lifeless and charmless. It is only 

 dormant. The external world fails to interest us because 

 we have not been trained to see and know it ; and also because 



To the teacher. — We want the country child to have a closer touch with 

 nature in the winter time. Teach him to see, to know, and to care for the 

 trees when they are leafless. This leaflet will suggest how you may 

 interest him. 



You can also intensify his interest in the subject, and at the same time 

 increase his knowledge of drawing, by having him make skeleton or out- 

 line drawings of the trees about the schoolhouse or the home. Part II. of 

 this leaflet, written by one of the Instructors in drawing in the Cornell 

 University, will aid you in this attempt. 



You can correlate this work with geography by giving the distribution 

 or range of the different kinds of trees. Indicate the limit of distribution 

 northward, southward, eastward, westward ; also the regions in which the 

 species is most abundant. The common manuals of botany will help you 

 in this work; or you may consult Apgar's "Trees of the Northern 

 United States " (Amer. Book Co.), or Mathew's "Familiar Trees and their 

 Leaves ' ' ( Appleton ) . 



In teaching nature-study, remember that a great part of its value lies in 

 the enthusiasm and zeal with which 3^ou handle it. Try, also, to develops 

 the aesthetic sense of the pupil ; but do not teach mere sentiment. 



