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Rural School Leaflet 



over seed catalogues and making ])lans for gardens that will be planted 

 at their homes when garden time comes. 



X. Five more weeds. In the November leaflet we pictured the seeds 

 of five weeds and suggested that each school begin to make a collection 

 of weed seeds. We also described one good way to preserve seeds for study, 

 and on this page there is a i^icture showing the kind of mount described. 

 The mount in the picture, however, has a sheet of paper between the 

 cardboard and the back cover of glass, and on the back of the paper the 

 names of the seeds are written corresponding to the letters under the 

 samples. The method of labeling the samples directly on the front as 

 outlined in the November leaflet is, perhaps, a better one because then 



Seed collection. See page 283 in the November leaflet 



the name can be constantly associated with the seed. In this case the 

 sheet of i:)apcr may be omitted, and should one desire to study the seeds 

 without the names in order to test his memory, the mount may simply 

 be turned over for the jnirposc. Five more weed seeds are shown in this 

 leaflet and they have l)ccn chosen because it will be possible to find 

 them even in the dead of winter. Many schools already have very 

 complete collections of weed seeds, and we hope that they will spend 

 some time in studying the different kinds so that each boy and girl will 

 be able to identify a large number of the more common weed seeds 

 at sight. This is a valuable work and will be useful in connection with 

 the farm-seed-testing work that will soon be started. See page 1039. 

 A word about each of the five weeds whose seeds are shown in this leaflet 

 may be of interest, although every boy and girl is probably familiar 

 with them. 



