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vases protect their pollen from the wind, could hardly exist without the good 

 offices of their insect friends. Ladybirds and aphis lions feed on the plant 

 lice ; dragon flies dart through the air on a continual hunt for the smallest 

 winged insects; and ichneumon flies of many kinds and sizes deposit their 

 eggs in the bodies of caterpillars and other larvae, and in their development 

 the living host is destroyed. 



Study of wild flowers and blossoming trees 

 Alm.ost greater than the pleasure of hearing and seeing the returning 



Fig. 73. — Ot!ce a week while the girls nf ike sixth grade, Bradley, are at sewing school, 

 the hoys have gardening lessons. In March they begin by sowing seed, picking out 

 the lettuce and tomato plants 



birds, is that of finding — not always picking — the first flowers of spring; 

 and, as in the case of the birds, a better knowledge of the flowers and 

 their habits may lead to their care and preservation. The writer has 

 taught in country districts where hepaticas, anemones, trailing arbutus, 

 shadbushes, and wild azaleas were all classed by the children as " May- 

 flowers," though most of them bloom in April. For one who loves plants, 

 it will but increase that affection to have a few simple lessons on their 

 names, characteristics, and family relations. To learn how to make a 

 small herbarium, in which the plants are neatly arranged, with name, 



