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it moist it will develop or make usable food that lies in the seed and will 

 carry the plant into, say, a youthful stage. When all the resources of 

 the lunch have been absorbed the plant will, to use a child's language, 

 become hungry and die from starvation. If your pupils were in some 

 of the higher grades I would suggest that before the hungry period 



begins some of the plants be 

 transplanted to pots contain- 

 ing fertile soil and part re- 

 main in the sand. Give each 

 the same care and observe 

 how the plants in fertile soil 

 will begin to elaborate their 

 own living. 



I hope you will not fail to 

 get Cornell Nature-Study 

 Leaflets and take from the 

 lessons " How a Squash Plant 

 Gets Out of the Seed " such 

 features as you think are 

 adapted to the understanding 



of your pupils. 



A dry soil. 



Tivo Plants for the Schoolrooiti IVindoiv. 



You may have an inquiry in your mind about some plants that you 

 may have in your schoolroom, more for their beauty than for instruction. 

 I would recommend for that purpose the Chinese lily and Paper White 

 narcissus. The latter is the cheaper of the two — 35 cents per dozen I 

 think — and will give blossoms a little earlier than the former. Both are 

 given the same kind of treatment, which is to place the bulbs in a 

 shallow dish, place enough pebbles about them to keep them upright 

 when the flower stalks become top-heavy, and keep the dish supplied 

 with sufficient water to cover two-thirds of the bulbs. As there is little 

 direct plant food in the water the question arises, what sustains the 

 growth? Simply the food stored in the bulb by the parent during the 

 preceding years' growth. By the time the flowers have died that store 

 of food has been exhausted. The same is true of hyacinths grown in 

 water ; but hyacinths grown in pots of soil will partially recover when 

 replanted in the open ground. 



T am hoping to hear from you soon after the receipt of these sugges- 

 tions. T am wondering whether you will tell me that in many things I 

 am awav bevond the understanding of \()ur little ones, that I must have 



