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SPRING NATURE STUDY. 

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CHILDREN'S PAPERS ON TREES. 

 OUR FIELD LESSON. 1 



" Yesterday we went out on a field lesson to see the horse-chestnut 

 tree. The shape of the horse-chestnut tree is like a cone. The horse- 

 chestnut tree is forty or fifty feet high. The trunk does not go up to 

 the top of the tree. It goes up half way, and then the branches spread 

 out. The branches of the elm tree are better than the horse-chestnut 

 tree, because the birds can build their nests in the elm better than 

 they can in the horse-chestnut. The branches of the horse-chestnut 

 are thicker than the elm. The branches of the horse-chestnut tree 

 are not as graceful as the elm." GENE VIE VE HOURIGAN. 



"We went out for a field lesson April 5, 1898, to see the horse- 

 chestnut tree. It is shaped like a honey cone. ( Probably confuses 

 cone with bee-hive. C. B. S.) It is not the same height as the elm. 

 Its trunk does not go all the way up the tree ; it branches out. Its 

 branches point up straight (?). Its branches are thick. It points up 

 to the sky. The elm is more graceful. I know it by the twigs, be- 

 cause the buds are on the ends. When the sun shines the buds get 

 sticky. It is thicker than the elm." GRACE MILLER, 



THIRD GRADE, PRACTICE SCHOOL. 



OSWEGO, April 6, 1898. 



THE BIRCH TREE. 



" We went for a field lesson yesterday morning to study the birch 

 tree. The bark of the birch tree is smooth at the top. On the top 

 the color is white and gray, inside it is black. At the bottom it is 

 rough and it is gray. 



The tree is about forty feet high. The branches are spreading in 

 every direction. There are a great many branches on the tree. 



The leaves are green and small. They are shaped like a harp. 

 There are a great many many twigs on the branches. 



The catkins make the tree look very pretty. The catkins are 

 shaped like worms. 



The bark on the top is thin, and at the bottom it is very thick. 

 When the bark of the lilac is taken off, it comes off straight. But 



1 Two papers are given, written by children in the same room, at the same 

 time, to show what can be gained in the way of individual written work, as dis- 

 tinguished from class reproduction. 



