100 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [14:3— Mar., 1918 



a certain period. Many a valuable lesson will often be merely 

 incidental. 



A trip to the grocery store will furnish material for many 

 interesting lessons. Which side up did the turnips grow? What 

 part of the carrot plant do we eat? Why do these plants have 

 fleshy roots? What part of the plant is the potato? Do you 

 know that peanuts are like pea pods, growing underground? 

 Why are there so many seeds within a fig and how are they ar- 

 ranged? Where do bananas and pineapples grow? What do they 

 look like in their native surroundings? Why don't they grow in 

 our yards? 



Is there a fish market near by? Why does the halibut have 

 both eyes on one side of his head? Why do they scrape fish 

 before eating them? What use are these scales to the fish? 

 Are these fish like the ones in our school room? Do bullheads 

 have scales? What is the difference between oysters and clams? 

 Where do they live? In our nature room we have means of 

 finding answers to all these questions and many more. 



What a wealth of suggestive material we "city folk" have at 

 hand. We may have no nearby brook or meadow, but we have 

 many other things instead. We do not have them in the natural 

 beauty of their native state, but we must try to associate that with 

 them, and to do this so closely that our interest avoids the stamp 

 of superficiality. This is the field for nature-study in our city 

 schools. 



This work will bring unmeasured joy to the teacher. 



My Garden 



Marion McFadden (Age 8) 



I have a little garden 



Down by an apple tree. 

 'Tis cared for by God in Heaven, 



As well as little me. 

 There are many others like it, 



But none so dear to me 

 As my tiny little garden, 



Behind the Academy. 



