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66. What is the best method of extermlQatiog the red spider? 

 Kerosene emulaiou or snlpher fumes. 



67. iSTame collectioa of objects bearinc: on the sta'^y of horti- 

 culture which would be instructive to children of school age. 



Seeds — Beans, corn, pumpkin, squash, radish, mustard, melon, 

 pine. 



Roots — Radish, turnip, rhubarb, sweet potato, grass and others. 



Bulbs — Onion, gladiolus, oxalis. 



Tuber — Common potato. 



Elowers — Many kinds, wild and cultivated. 



Fruits — Many kinds, wild and cultivated. 



Whole plants — Trees, shrubs and bushes, with plant, flower and 

 seed. 



Wood — Of various trees. 



-68. How prepare a collection of different kinds of wood? 



In making a collection of woods, care should be taken to get the 

 \)lock8 of a size as nearly uniform as possible. Eight inches long and 

 four inches thick is a very good size, if the woody plant grows so 

 3arge. Each block ought to be split lengthwise through the center, so 

 ^as to show the heart wood and sap wood in the longitudinal section. 

 It ought to show the bark on the outside, and one end at least should 

 be sawed off square to show the rings of growth and the medullary 

 Tays. 



69. How prepare a collection of different kinds of seeds ? 



A sufficient quantity of seeds for examination should be collected 

 from each kind of a plant as soon as the seeds are ripe or a little be- 

 fore. They should be thoroughly dry. Expose them to the sun the 

 first day or two after gathering (care being taken not to allow the hot 

 ■rays of midday sun to scorch them.) The collection of each kind of 

 «eed8 should show some examples of the seeds in the receptacle as well 

 as the naked seeds. The seeds may be kept in small pasteboard boxes, 

 which may be glued, if desired, to a tablet of pasteboard. Each box 

 should have a cover, or the whole tablet may be put into a drawer and 

 the drawer covered with glass. A thread case answers very well as a 

 repository for such a collection. 



Each box of seed should be carefully labeled. The label should 

 «how accurately the date on which the seed was gathered, the locality, 

 «,nd, if possible, the name of the plant which produced it. 



70. How prepare a collection of different kinds of nuts ? 



The directions for making a collection of seeds will answer very 

 well for making a collection of nuts. The nuts should be gathered 

 about: the time they are ripe, and the collection should show the nut 



