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in its covering, as well as the naked nut. If desired, the receptacle 

 and the nut also may be fastened with glue to the bottom of the box. 

 The label should be accurate as possible, especially regarding the 

 locality and date. 



71. How prepare a collection of different kinds of leaves? 

 When a person starts into the tields and woods to gather leaves 



for a collection, he should take with him a number of pieces of news- 

 paper between two smooth, thin boards, and around the boards should 

 be a strap, fastening with a buckle — I2x 18 inches is a good size for 

 the boards and pieces of paper. As soon as a leaf or leaves are gath- 

 ered for preservation, they should be placed between two of the pieces 

 of paper, the paper replaced between the boards, and the whole ap- 

 paratus fastened tightly with a strap. After arriving at home the 

 papers should be changed for dry ones, and pressure may be exerted 

 upon them by weights placed upon a board which covers the paper. 

 The same boards between which the leaves were placed when collecting 

 may be used, but most collectors will prefer to use other boards. The 

 papers should be changed for dry ones twice on the first day, and 

 once a day aftervvard for about a week. The leaves should then be 

 pasted upon clean, white paper about llX L7 inches, and the locality, 

 date and name of the plant, if possible, should be written in the lower 

 right corner. 



72. What special lines of thought would these object lessons 

 stimulate ? 



The special lines of thought stimulated by making and studying 

 such collections as are indicated above will be: I. An excercising of 

 the mental faculties of abstracting, comparing, generalizing. 2. It will 

 lead people to see that a great deal more exists around them than they. 

 €ver before suspected, and to a close observation of nature's forms. 3 

 It will make the people who collect find that the things immediately 

 around them are worthy of study; that the world is full of grace, 

 beauty and harmony. 4. It will direct the thought toward the culti- 

 vation of the valuable and the eradication of the harmful. 



73. Where are oranges and lemons grown in the United States ? 

 Florida and California. 



74. What are pomegranates, and where grown in the United 

 States? 



The \>oxnegTiina>te fPunicu7n gratiatumj is grown more or less all 

 over the state of California more for ornament rather than use, though 

 a limited quantity of the fruit is marketed every year. It forms a 

 shrub or small tree not exceeding 20 feet in height, and there are 

 numerous varieties with very attractive flowers, some of them yellow. 



