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TEACHER'S LEAFLET 



BASED UPON THE WORK FOR FOURTH, FIFTH AND SIXTH YEAR PUPILS AS 



OUTLINED IN THE SYLLABUS OF NATURE-STUDY AND AGRICULTURE 



ISSUED BY THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. 



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Leaf print. Basal and stem leaves of the common motherwort. 



Lesson XIII. 



LEAF STUDIES AND MAKING LEAF PRINTS. 



One way to find out whether one clearly sees what is looked at is to 

 try to make a picture of it ; and there is no better way to educate the 

 eye and hand. But even the copying of the outline and venation of ai 

 leaf requires care and practice, and very few teachers of rural schools 

 can find time to devote in this way to the work of Nature-study. 



So the editor is very glad to tell her readers of a simple, inexpensive 

 and easy process which she has lately learned by which the leaf makes 



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