SPRING NATURE STUDY. 607 



" Miss Schiller had some sod that she found under a board. The 

 sod was yellow because it grew in the dark and did not have the sun. 

 The plants that are in the window box are green because they had sun. 

 We find Leaf-green inside of each leaf. Leaf-green is something like 

 green paste or jelly. We call the leaf the kitchen. The sun is the 

 lire for the leaf. Leaf -green is a fairy and lives in every part of the 

 leaf. The sun and Leaf-green are friends. They make food for the 

 plant. The leaves take the bad air that we do not need. The roots 

 take the water and send it to the leaves. Leaf-green and sun make food 

 out of bad air and water. Leaf-green works in the day. When the 

 sun goes down Leaf -green goes to bed. ' ' 



JENNIE BOYER, THIRD GKADE. 



MY DANDELION LEAP. 



4 'The dandelion leaf starts from the root. It resembles the horse 

 chestnut a iittle in shape. The surface of the leaf in front is rough. 

 On the back it is smoothest. The teeth curve in a little toward the 

 end. The notches or teeth help support the plant by leaning against 

 the grass. There are not so many veins in the dandelion leaf as there 

 are in the horse chestnut. The middle rib holds the plant together. 

 There is a little groove in the front of the main rib. This is for the 

 water to run down to the root. The plant needs rain, sunshine, wind 

 and a kind of food it gets from the ground. There are little teeth on 

 the side of the big teeth. Toward the bottom the main rib is wider. 

 On the back it is light green and on the front it is darker. The num- 

 ber of teeth on both sides of mine is eleven. The little veins come up 

 to the main rib for f o'od and drink. The main rib gets its food from 

 the root. The little veins start from the main rib and run to the end 

 of the teeth." RICHARD SHELDON OULD. 



' ' The shape of my dandelion leaf is like a horse-chestnut leaf, but 

 it is not as strong and it is narrower. The front side of the dande- 

 lion leaf is rougher than the back side because it has a great many little 

 fine hairs on it. The veins of the dandelion leaf start from the tip of the 

 teeth. The great big rib that is in the centre of the leaf is for the wa- 

 ter to run down through for the roots. On the back of the leaf it is 

 light green and on the front it is dark green. It is dark green on the 

 front because the sun shone on it. The number of the teeth on my 

 dandelion is ten on one side and eleven on the other side." 



MARIE HAPGOOD, THIRD GRADE. 



