FALL PLANT STUDY. 



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It will be most helpful to take the children out for a 

 field lesson to study the "white winged seeds/ 7 such as 

 those of the thistle, aster, golden-rod, and sow thistle. 



*'* Oh, downy, dainty little wings, 

 Wild floating wings like silver spun, 

 That dance and glisten in the sun ! 

 You airy things, you elfin things, 

 .That seed-time always brings, 

 Oh, are you seeds that seek the earth, 

 The light of laughing flowers to spread ? 

 Or flitting fairies, that have birth 

 When autumn's flowers seem dead ? " 



Adapted. Author not known. 



THE MAPLE SEEDS AND OTHER WINGED SEEDS. 



The maple seeds may be a type of these. They can be 

 found in the grass under the maple trees. The seeds of 

 the Norway maple remain on the trees until autumn. 



