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NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [12:3— Mch., 1916 



According to this plan shelves are placed along the wall be- 

 neath the windows. These shelves are usually seven or eight 

 inches wide and as long as the windows are wide. On these 

 shelves are placed zinc trays as wide as the shelves with sides 

 about an inch high. We usually have two trays to a window. 



Paper Flower-pot with Crocus. 



On these trays are placed paper flower pots in which the pupils 

 grow various foliage and flowering plants, seedlings of various 

 sorts, tree cuttings and a great variety of spring flowering bulbs. 



In a room with forty children and three wide windows it is eas- 

 ily practicable for each pupil to be provided with three plants 

 at all times. The front side of the trays are divided off into 

 spaces by chalk lines, each space being numbered consecutively 



