FALL PLANT STUDY. 385 



Step III. How the Seed Balloons are Made, 

 Step IV. How the Seeds Get Out of Their Cup. 

 Step V. How the Wind Helps. 



Lesson III. Supplementary Reading and Literature. 

 A Dandelion. Florence Bass. In " Plant Life." 

 To the Dandelion. Lowell. Portions can be read. 

 A Dandelion. Louise M. Hodgkins. In " Fairyland 



of Flowers." 

 Now West Wind Helped the Dandelion. Emilie 



Poulsson. In " In the Child's World." 

 The Apple Branch. Andersen. In " Classic Stories 



for Little Ones." 

 Hiawatha. The Four Winds. Legend of dandelion 



near end. 



OTHER PLUMED SEEDS. 



In connection with the seed study bring into the school- 

 room the fall flowers, and watch them " go to seed." 



This will help the children to appreciate the flowers, and 

 make them familiar with their names. 



After the dandelion the children may study other hairy 

 winged seeds, aster, golden-rod, clematis, touching 

 lightly on the history and prophecy which can be read in each 

 seed, emphasizing their adaptation to their work and special 

 preparation for dissemination, and gathering all about the 

 milkweed or dandelion as a centre and a bond of union. 

 (See Fig. 32.) 



Encourage the children to collect and bring in all the 

 seeds with hairs, like those of milkweed and dandelion, 

 which they can find. They will find many at this season, 



" When all the lovely wayside things 

 Their white winged seeds are sowing." 



