946 Rural School Leaflet. 



Do not gather specimens from private grounds without permission, and 

 be careful not to mutilate the trees. Small sprays of each kind will be as 

 good as large branches. Place this collection of evergreens on the nature- 

 Study table and classify the specimens as follows: 



1. The Pine group. — Long needles. 



2. The Hemlocks, Firs, Larches. — Short, fiat, blunt needles or soft 

 needles. Any tree iri this group not evergreen? 



3. The Spruces, Cedars, Junipers, Yew. — Trees with short, sharp 

 needles or with scales. 



You will find this classification in "Familiar Trees and Their Leaves," 

 by Schuyler Matthews. How many different kinds of trees can you find 

 in each of the above divisions? 



Prepare specimen sheets by pasting the different evergreens on paper 

 for the Syracuse exhibit. 



QUOTATIONS 



All day it snows ; the sheeted post 



Gleams in the dimness like a ghost; 



All day the blasted oak has stood 



A muffled wizard of the wood ; 



Garland and airy cap adorn 



The sumac and the wayside thorn, 



And clustering spangles lodge and shine 



In the dark tresses of the pine. — /. T. Trowbridge 



But cheerily the chickadee singeth to me on fence and tree; 



The snow sails round him as he sings, 



White as the down of angels' wings. — /. T. Trowbridge 



LETTER TO FARM BOYS AND GIRLS 



Dear Boys and Girls in the Country: 



By the time this reaches you, many of you will have seen the first 

 snow-fall. I wonder who saw it first? The young folks way up in St. 

 Lawrence county have the best chance, because it snows so much sooner 

 up there than it does in southern New York. Anyhow, doesn't it always 

 make you want to jump right out of your seat in school when you see it? 

 You know it means long white hills to slide down and ice-covered creeks 

 and ponds to skate on and tracks in the snow to follow and snow-ball 

 battles to wage bravely. It means snow men to build and big blankets 

 to snuggle under while the cutter glides merrily along and you shut your 



