THE GRADE PLAN 485 



Grade IV 



LESSONS WITH PLANTS 



Competitive Flower Rearing : 

 Centaurea, Emperor William 



Flower Calendar 



vStudy of Wild Flowers : 



Meadow rue Lady's slipper 



Purple avens Blue-eyed grass 



Indian pipe Thorough wort 



Sundew Jack-in-the-pulpit 



Shad bush Corn cockle 

 Saxifrage 



Garden Work : 



Vegetable garden ; parsnips, sage, horse radish 

 Wild-flower garden ; lessons on transplanting 



Fruit : 



Apples ; save and plant seeds, and learn varieties 



Trees : 



Butternut ; germinate nut Mulberry ; propagate from cuttings 



Flowerless Plants : 



Mushrooms ; collect specimens, learn to recognize poisonous 

 Amanitas 



Myths, Legends, Stories, Poems, and Pictures of the Plants 

 and Animals for this Grade 



