Supplement to 



Mome IRatute = Stub^ Course 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 I, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July 16, 1804. 



ANNA EOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, 1905 - No. r 



PLAXT STUDY 



Every schoolhouse in village or country is set amid a great variety of 

 plants. Somethimes these are cultivated but more often they are of Na- 

 ture's own planting. These plants flourish and struggle for room for 

 their roots in the ground and for their leaves in the sunshine ; they blos- 

 som and sow their seeds. Let every teacher learn how many and what 

 plants are growing in the schoolyard and along the roadside near her 

 school. Let her regard the schoolhouse as the center and get to know 

 her nearest plant neighbors and their ways. 



I like these plants that 3'ou call weeds, — 

 Sedge, liardhack, mullein, \arrow, — • 

 That knit their roots and sow their seeds 

 Where any grassy wheel-track leads 

 Through country by-ways narrow. 



— Lucy Larcom. 



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