A GRADED COURSE OF NATURE-STUDY 431 



as are desired to save a while. Later, clean up the garden for 

 winter. Mulch the bulb bed. Protect the seedling trees. 

 (Chap. XVI, 229, 221, 240, Q.) 



GENERAL: Gather garden products from school-garden. 

 Study them from the economic point of view. (P, R, S.) 

 How kept in the winter. How prepared for table. Special 

 study of the potato.* Dig up and see how the tubers grow. 

 Importance of potato as food. Simple study of starch. Try 

 to make starch from grated potato. (P, S, K, 222, 228.) 

 The potato a storehouse of starch food. What does the 

 potato grow tubers for? 



Native fruits * and nuts :* Visit orchard or nut grove. 

 (S, N, R, 238.) Their edibility, beauty. What does the 

 tree grow fruit for? (K, 154, 156, etc.) Find the seed part 

 in different fruits. Plant some seasoned fruit-seeds. Briefly 

 tell the story of an apple-seed life cycle of tree. 



Note the development of flowers into fruit, the forma- 

 tion and the scattering of the seed. Observe and collect 

 seeds that sail,* seeds that "steal a ride," burs.* Make a 

 seed chart of each kind. How the wind helps seeds to travel. 

 How people and animals carry the burs. (N, K, 154, 156, 

 158, 161.) 



TREES: Identification study: Review those learned in 

 previous years. Add pear, beech, hickory. (173, etc., L.) 

 Raspberry, gooseberry shrubs. 



Autumn foliage,* landscape effects.* Color changes in 

 particular trees.* Collect, and make booklet with leaves 

 mounted and describing each tree represented, perhaps a 

 painting of the tree in color, and a drawing of it later 

 when bare. Note the buds on the twigs.* What is a bud ? 

 (L, 216, K.) 



