748 Home Nature-Study Course. 



ested in this problem, that we shall ask the pupils of the Home Nature- 

 Study Course to study the wood-lots in the vicinity of the schools this 

 winter, and decide if they are managed to the best advantage and if not, 

 why. 



To begin this work we shall take up the study of the evergreens, and 

 find what kinds we have growing in various portions of the State, their 

 condition and their value. We shall also study the evergreens planted 

 for shade trees and learn more about them, and decide whether they are 

 ornamental and useful, or whether they are injurious to the farm home 

 by keeping out the sunshine, for it has become a well established fact that 

 the sun is a great exterminator of some injurious germs. 



the evergreens tn the fields and wood-lots 



Questions 



1. How many kinds of evergreens do you find in your neighbor- 

 hood? 



2. How many kinds of pines are there among these? 



3. How do the leaves of these pines differ from each other in : 



(a) Number in a bundle 



(b) Length of needles 



4. How many spruces do you find? 



5. How do the leaves of these kinds of spruces differ as to shape 

 and length? 



6. Compare a spruce tree with a hemlock as to: 



(a) Shape of leaves 



(b) Arrangement of leaves on the twigs. 



7. How many cedars do you know? Describe or figure t\vo or 

 three leaves of cedar 



