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soon as they begin to drop. Some we will keep for next 

 fall, and the others you may plant and watch them grow. 



NOTE. A teacher who can find the time might very profitably de- 

 vote a month or more to the study of " The Flowers of Early Spring." 

 Some of the following common flowers are suggested for such work, 

 but, for want of space, a description cannot be given here. 



1. The Skunk Cabbage. Our earliest flower. 



2. The Pasque Flower. Anemone patens. 



3. The Marsh Marigold, or Cowslip. 



4. The Rue Anemone. Anemonella thalictroides. 



5. The Hepatica, or Liverleaf. Hepatica triloba. 



6. Some common Violet. 



7. The Bellwort. Uvularia grandiftora. 



8. The Wild Ginger. Asarum Canadense. 



9. The Jack-in-the-Pulpit. 



10. The Trillium, or Wake-robin. 



For the identification of common and conspicuous flowers, the 

 teacher might consult : Dana, How to Know the Wild Flowers. The 

 best work for the identification of plants is Britton and Brown , Illus- 

 trated Flora, published by Charles Scribner's Sons ; three volumes. 

 This work gives accurate figures of all the native flowering plants 

 which are now known from Virginia to Newfoundland and from the 

 Atlantic coast to the one hundred and second meridian. 



