TEACHER'S LEAFLETS 



FOR USE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



PREPARED BY 



THIRD EDITION. 

 No. 1. 



DEC. 1, 1896. 



THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, 

 CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 



Issued under Chapter 128 

 of the Laws of 1897. 



ITHACA, N. Y. 



How a Squash Plant Gets Out 

 of the Seed. 



BY L. H. BAILEY. 



If one were to plant seeds of a Hubbard or Boston 

 Marrow squash in loose, warm earth in a pan or box, 

 and were then to leave the parcel for a week or ten 

 days, he would find, upon his return, a colony of 

 plants like that shown in Fig. i. If he had not 

 planted the seeds himself or had not seen such 

 plants before, he would not believe that these cu- 

 rious plants would ever grow into squash vines, so 

 different are they from the vines which we know in 

 the garden. This, itself, is a most curious fact, — 

 this wonderful difference between the first and the 

 ' piant'a'week later stagcs of all plants, and it is only because we 

 " ' know it so well that we do not wonder at it. 



Note. — These leaflets are intended for the teacher, not for the scholars. 

 It is their purpose to suggest the method which a teacher maj' pursue in 

 instructiug children at odd times in nature-study. The teacher should show 

 the children the objects themselves, — should plant the seeds, raise the plants, 

 collect the iusects, etc. ; or, better, he should interest the children to collect 

 the objects. Advanced pupils, however, may be given the leaflets and asked 

 to perform the experiments or make the observations which are suggested. 

 The scholars themselves should be taught to do the work and to arrive at 

 independent conclusions. Teachers who desire to inform themselves more 

 fully upon the motives of this nature-study teaching, should write for a copy 

 of Bulletin 122, of the Cornell Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. Y. 



