OF NATURE STUDY. —ji 



FRIIT. 



What is the shape of the fruit ? Is it g-ood to eat ? Do animals eat it ? 

 How many seeds are there in it ? Mould clay to the shape of the fruit ? 



SECOND STAGE. 



Review conditions of jfrowth as in first stage. What other plants are growing 

 near it ? Compare conditions of plants found in different localities. Do the 

 plants vary with conditions ? Compare plants which grow in shade and in sun. 

 Compare plants which grow in moist soil with those in dry soil. What kind of 

 soil seems most favorable to the plant? Why are the plants found in patches? 

 If animals will not eat them, discover why. Observe how bees enter and leave 

 the flowers. What insects cannot enter ? Why ? What do the bees get from 

 the flowers ? What do they carry from one flower to another? 



PART OF PLANT ABOVK C'.KOlNn. 



Review work of first stage. Where does it grow higher, in sun or in shade ? 

 In sand or in clay? In moist or in dry soil? What are the highest plants 

 observed ? The widest? Look at the plant from above. Describe the 

 appearance of the leaves. How are they attached to the stem? Why 

 are they not placed one above the other ? Do the leaves change posi- 

 tion in sunlight and at night. Make drawings of whole plant to show various 

 points observed. Describe a leaf fully, and draw. Compare with leaves of other 

 plants. Why are the leaves narrow? Compare the number of leaves with the 

 numlier on the sunflower or other large leaved plant. Make a diagram showing 

 the order in which the flowei-s open. What advantage is it to the plant to have 

 flowers open successively? Make a drawing of a flower. 



FLOWER. 



Observe the different floral organs, calyx, corolla, stamens, pistil. How 

 many parts in each? Show by diagram where each partis situated. How is the 

 corolla adapted to invite the bee to visit it ? What attracts the bee ? Observe one 

 light on the flower and tell just what happens as the bee lights, enters, and leaves. 

 What part oi the bee becomes covered with pollen? What becomes of this 

 pollen ? Where is the nectar found ? 



FRlIT. 



Review — Is it dry or flesliy ? How long does it take to mature ? Does it split 

 open when ripe ? How? Why? How many cavities in the fruit? How many 

 seeds? Where are the seeds attached in the fruit? How are the seeds discharged 

 from the pod? Examine a seed and make a drawing. How is it made so as to 

 be carried away? What agent will carry it? Preserve some seeds and plant 

 next spring. Compare with other seeds in shape, size, color, etc. 



PART OF PLANT I NDERGROLND. 



Review — Account for the plant growing in patches. How does the root-stock 

 grow in length each year? What becomes of the old part? What happens to 

 the plant in winter? Preserve root-stocks and plant them in spring. (Give name 

 perennial, for plant which lives from year to year, after pupils have discovered 



