SPUING NATURE STUDY. 591 



" Then we got a dish of seeds with sprouts and they were swelled 

 up because they were in water. The seeds were put in a dish and in 

 the box April 27. The little gate is the place where the sprout comes 

 out. It looks like a place where a pin was put in and took out again. 

 It made a little hole. The skin of the morning-glory is loose. 



" Then I went up to the box and saw that the morning-glory seed 

 was up and the seed was at the end of the leaf and the leaves were 

 shaped like a heart. 



" The leaves were yellow at first, then they turned green. The stem 

 is white. The seed pushed up and then it turned down to the ground 

 and then the leaves were yellow. The leaves were down in the 

 ground, then they straightened up. 



" When the leaves were down in the ground they stuck together 

 then when they came out they were spread out and we call them 

 cotyledons. Before they straightened up the shucks fell off. 



*' The morning glory grow fast very fast." 



MARGUERITE BRUNEAU, 

 THIRD GRADE. 



MY LITTLE SQUASH SEEDS. 



" My squash seed is shaped like a stone in a plum. The color is 

 cream color. The one that has the sprout its life has come out. The 

 sun has come and said ' Wake up and come out ' so the second one 

 has come out. But the first has never been planted so it can't until it 

 is planted. There is a point where the little life comes out. And 

 the other end is round like a ball. The use of the root is to send up 

 the food and water. The color of the root is white and it has two lit- 

 tle roots on it." BLANCHE MARTIN. 



WATCHING GERMINATION OF SEEDS OUT-DOORS. 



Apply what is learned from bean and morning glory by 

 leading children to observe carefully, and report how other 

 seeds germinate. One or two field lessons to observe germi- 

 nation of any weed seeds or tree seeds will be helpful. Give 

 pupils flower or garden seeds to plant on condition that 

 they watch them carefully, and report what they see and 

 learn. Try to have them observe the germination of some 

 of the seeds whose formation and dissemination were studied 

 last fall, such as the mallow, buttercup, dandelion, milk- 



