6o4 Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



First March Meeting. 



Nature — TJie Trees. 

 I. Introductory Exercises. 



"Aye, keep plaiitiit' a tree, Jock; it'll be growin' while you're 

 sleepin'." 

 Music. 

 Quotation, by the President — 



"And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree 

 that is pleasant to the sigJit, and good for food ; the tree of life 

 also in the jiiidst of the garden, and the tree of knozvledge of good 

 and ei'ii:" 

 Reading — Planting the Appletree, by WilHam Cullen Bryant; or 

 Why Trees Die, page 55 , Among Green Trees, by JuHa Ellen 

 Rogers. 



Paper, On the Trees of the Neighborhood, by , 



Their kinds, uses and proper care. 



II. Main Program. 



A. For First Year Readers, The Flozvcr-garden, Farmers' Wives' 

 Bulletin No. 5. 



" Wayside songs and meadow blossoms: nothing perfect, nothing rare; 

 Every poet's ordered garden yields a hundred Hozvers more fair; 

 Master-singers knoz^' a music richer far beyond compare." 



1. Consider first half of questions on discussion paper. 



2. Consider advisability of giving the children a plot of 



ground which they may call their own where they 

 may raise flowers. 



3. Can you do anything to aid the teacher to have flowers 



growing at school ? 



Froebel wrote, " If the boy cannot have the care of a little garden 



of his own, he should have at least a few plants in boxes or flower 



pots, filled not with rare and delicate or double plants, but with such 



as are common, rich in leaves and blossoms, and thrive easily. The 



