Junior IRatutalist /Iftontbl^ 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University from 

 October to May, and Entered at Ithaca as Second-class Matter. L. H. Bailey, Director. 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor. 



New Series. Vol. 3. ITHACA, N. Y., MARCH, 1907. No. 6. 



BEECH. 



' Like beggared princes of the wood, 

 In silver rags the birches stood, 

 The hemlocks, lordly counsellors, 

 Were dumb ; the sturdy servitors, 

 In beechen jackets, patched and gray 

 Seemed waiting spellbound all the day 

 That low entrancing note to hear, — 



Pe-wee! Pe-wee! Peer!" — Troivhridge. 



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ANY times children are 

 familiar with trees in 

 spring, summer, and autumn but 

 they have no knowledge of them 

 in winter; yet trees in winter 

 give as much delight to thost 

 who know them as they do in 

 summer. Oftentimes I have 

 gone out on a winter day with 

 my botany can and filled it with 

 twigs for the pleasure that the 

 colors and forms gave me. I al- 

 ways cut the twigs carefully so 

 as not to injure the tree. 



Not long since I gathered a 

 twig from the beech tree. The 

 twigs of these trees always have 

 a very characteristic appearance 

 because of the long, slender 

 buds. I wish some boy or girl would get a good sized 

 twig of the beech for study and place it on the nature- 

 study table. Note whether the buds open and if so 

 how. Observe also the rings showing where the 

 branches started in previous years. Compare these 

 rings with those on an apple twig. How would you 

 say they differ? 



If you do not know a beech tree when you see it amd if your teacher 

 does not know it, we shall be glad to learn how you went to work to find 



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