Supplement to 



junior IRaturalist /Iftontbl^ 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell 

 University, from October to May, and entered at 

 Ithaca as second=cla35 matter. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



New Series. Vol. 2. ITHACA, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1905. 



No. 2 



CHILDREN'S PLANTS, AND HOW THEY GROW 



By John W. Spencer 



"Do you know where the first crocus blows? 



Under the snows ; 

 Wide-eyed and winsome and daintily fair 

 As waxen exotic, close tended and rare; 

 Every child knows 

 Where the first crocus blows." 



— Sherwood. 



TEDDY AND HIS BULB BED 



This is Teddy. He is not so tall as he looks in the picture. 

 In two years he hopes to go to the High School. 

 He likes best to learn by doing. He would much rather study the 

 things themselves than study about them in books. 



He will learn all he can about flowers by raising them. Some people 

 say that tliey will not plant flowers until they know all about raising them. 



One can learn to swim only by 

 going into tlie water. 



Neither can one know how to make 

 plants grow without first growing 

 them. 



Teddy is much bewildered when he 

 turns the pages of a bulb catalogue 

 and sees the hundreds of long names 

 that he cannot pronounce. 



He is as much lost as though he 

 were put in the midst of a thousand 

 people whom he had never seen before 

 and tried to learn the naine of each 

 one and become acquainted with all 

 of them. 



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