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Rural School Leaflet. 



flourished when I supplied its simple needs. One week I went away 

 on a vacation, and when I returned the plant was dead; and I 

 missed it. 



Although my little plant had died so soon, it had taught me a 

 lesson; and the lesson was that it is worth while to have a plant. I 

 wish that every boy and girl would have a plant. It matters 

 little what the plant is. Just drop the seed, keep the earth warm and 

 moist, watch the plant " come up," see it grow. Measure its height 

 at a given time every day. Keep a record of how many times you 



Fig. 2. — An egg-shell farm. The plants from left to right are: cabbage, field- 

 corn, pop-corn, wheat, buckwheat 



water it. Make a note of every new leaf that appears. See whether 

 it leans towards the light. If it dies, tell why. 



A sheet of foolscap paper contains about twenty-eight lines, one 

 line for the notes of each day, and space enough at the top to write 

 your name, date of sowing, kind of seed, and nature of the soil. Open 

 the sheet and on each line at the left side write all the dates for four 

 weeks ahead; then fill in these lines across the two pages day by day 

 as the plant grows. For the first few days there will not be much 

 to write, but you can say whether you watered the earth or not, and 

 where you kept the pot or box. It will be good practice to get into 



