DISCUSSIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE 4/ 



QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 



This department will be devoted principally to the many little 

 practical problems which are of interest to teachers of nature- 

 study ; and all readers are invited to use this column freely. Ques- 

 tions should be sent to the office of the managing editor. Some 

 will be answered by members of the editorial board, while others 

 must be referred to readers for answers in later issues. But in all 

 cases the answers published are subject to discussion, correction, 

 or addition by readers. We hope to have such supplementary 

 answers within a month after the appearance of the first answer. 



The announcement of this department in the prospectus of this 

 journal has already called forth the following questions : 



Question i. Books on Trees. "Kindly give a list of popular 

 books dealing with trees." W. N., Chicago. 



Keeler's "Our Native Trees" (Scribners, N. Y. 1900. 

 $2.00). Matthew's "Familiar trees and their Leaves" (Apple- 

 ton, N. Y. New ed. 1903. 200 ill. $1.75). Lounsberry's 

 "Guide to the Trees" (Stokes, N. Y. 1900. $2.50). New- 

 hall's "Trees of Northeastern America" (Putnam, N. Y. 1890. 

 $2.50) . Rogers' " Among Green Trees : a guide to acquaintance 

 with familiar trees" (Mumford, Chicago. 1902. $3.00). Hunt- 

 ington's "Studies of Trees in Winter" (Knight, Boston. 1902. 

 $2.25). 



Question 2. Classification of Birds. " To what extent should 

 classification of birds be presented in the bird-study of a fifth or 

 sixth grade?" 



Referred to readers for answer. 



Question 3. School-Garden for Rural Schools. " How should 

 a rural school-garden be conducted so as to interest the pupils ? It 

 seems to me that the manual work involved in making gardens is 

 such a familiar experience to country children that they will have 

 little of the interest which novelty gives to the city children." F. 

 H., Toledo, Ohio. 



Referred to readers who may have had experience. 



