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at pictures of their flowers and fruits, and to have 
your teacher bring into the schoolroom specimens for 
examination. If this is all the city children can do 
(although even in the city one can do more than this), 
why, surely it is far better than nothing. 
But best of all is it to go right into the woods and 
fields where these strange, interesting creatures are 
living, and to see for yourselves their manners and 
customs. 
SHOOTING, SEEDS 
oe OWN by the brook and along the 
Fic. 71 
sides of the mountain grows a 
J tall shrub which is called the 
witch-hazel. I hope some of you 
know it by sight. I am sure that 
many of youY know its name on account of the extract 
which is applied so often to bruises and burns. 
This picture (Fig. 71) shows you a witch-hazel branch 
bearing both flowers and fruit; for, unlike any other 
plant I know, the flower of the witch-hazel appears late 
in the fall, when its little nuts are almost ripe. These 
nuts come from the flowers of the previous year. 
It is always to me a fresh surprise and delight to 
