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you have collected some with the burs and some without, arrange them 

 as nearly as you can as they are arranged in the photograph. 



How many kinds of hazelnuts have you found? Did the outer 

 covering have a long beak or a short ruffled lip? How does the covering 

 divide to release the nut? 



Some chestnuts have flat sides, while some are nearly round ; how 

 is the fact explained? Have you ever observed squirrels cutting off and 

 dropping chestnutburs on the ground, before frosts have opened them? 

 Do all chestnutburs open with the same number of clefts? 



In how many ways do horsechestnuts and their burs differ from the 

 true chestnuts ? Why are the round horsechestnuts best for sling-shots ? 



How do you distinguish the bitternut and mockernut from good 

 hickory nuts? How many seams does the outer shell of the hickory 

 nut show? 



Do walnut shells have seams like the hickory nut? Do the inner cells 

 and meats of walnuts resemble any other nut ? How many nuts can you 

 think of with "two-pronged" meats like a walnut? 



I'lG. 7. — Ntits. How many kinds are thcrei' 

 QUOTATIONS FOR DECEMBER. 



I watch the snow flakes as they fall 

 On bank and brier and broken wall ; 

 Over the orchard, waste and brown, 

 All noiselessly they settle down, 

 Tipping the apple-boughs, and each 

 Light quivering twig of plum and peach. 



The ragged bramble; dwarfed and old, 

 Shrinks like a beggar in the cold; 

 In surplice white the cedar stands. 

 And blesses him with priestly hands. 



J. T. Trowbridge. 



