390 Junior Naturalist Monthly. 



LEAFLESS TREES 



Sometimes as you look across the fields you see leafless trees that 

 you cannot name. Perhaps you would know them if the leaves were 

 out. It would be interesting to take a few tv/igs about a foot long from 

 these trees and place them in water in the schoolroom. As you watch 

 the buds swell, you will observe many things about the twigs that you 

 never saw before and another year you will be more interested in the 

 tree when the leaves are gone. A student whom I know can tell a great 

 many trees by looking at the twigs in winter. I hope our naturalists 

 will become familiar with a few leafless trees this month. 



THE WINNER OF THE PRIZE FOR THE BROOK BOOK 



Last year there was published in the Junior Naturalist Monthlv 

 a lesson on the brook. We asked the Junior Naturalists to study a brook 

 and to write Uncle John all that they had learned about it. A prize was 

 offered for the one who would send the best letter showing the naturalist 

 had really studied the brook. We received hundreds of letters and it 

 was difficult to decide which one was the best. After much consideration 

 we decided that the prize should go to Grover Goodman, Seneca Falls, 

 N. Y. I am sorry that there is not space to publish Grover's letter. From 

 it we learned that he really visited a brook and was interested in all the 

 plant and animal life about it. 



'Tis the sweetest thing to remember 



If courage be on the wane, 

 When the cold dark days are over — 



Why the birds go North again? 



— Ella TIigginson. 



