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7. How many kinds of cones do you see on your pine twig ? 

 Draw the smallest cone four times its natural size and the others 



exactly their natural size and write by the side of each cone the date 

 of the summer when it began to grow. 



8. What do you see on the twig besides leaves and cones? 

 Whereabouts on the twig do they grow ? What happens if you shake 

 them ? 



9. Take several scales from each kind of cone. What differences 

 do you see in them ? What has happened in the case of the scales 

 from the oldest cone ? 



HOME WORK. 



Fold a pea leaflet in two and place it by your pea pod in such 

 a position that the two look as much alike as possible. 



Draw the leaflet and the pod the same size and mark in your 

 drawing the side of the pod which you think corresponds to the 

 mid-rib of the leaf. Open the leaflet again and split your pod along 

 its shortest side. Now draw them both open and mark in the 

 drawing the part of the leaflet which corresponds to the line along 

 which the peas grow in the pod. 



Lesson 3. FLOWER PATTERNS. 

 Season. Third week in June. 

 Materials required for each pupil. 



8 10 small paper labels with stout cotton for 

 tying. One head of each of the flowers: speedwell, 

 ivheat, arabis or wallflower, red campion (branching 

 at least twice), privet, cow parsnip, elder, plantain. 



Flower branches follow definite rules just as leaf 

 branches do, and as you look at them you will notice 

 many likenesses between them. In the first place 

 a flower branch always grows out of the axil of a leaf. 



