18 NATURE STUDY 



Poems : 



Four Winds, F. D. Sherman (Lovejoy's Nature in Verse). 



Night Wind, Eugene Field. 



Wind, Robert Louis Stevenson, Child's Garden of Verse. 



Extracts from the West Wind, Evening Wind, Winds, Bryant. 



Summer Shower, Emily Dickinson. 



Rain, Margaret Deland. 



The Brook, Tennyson. 



To a Cloud, Bryant. 



Extracts from Shelley's Clouds. 



Rainy Day, Longfellow. 



PLANTS AND FLOWERS 



In September, should be studied the common wild 

 flowers. 



The following tentative division may be useful to some 

 teachers, but in general, use whatever material can be 

 most easily secured. 



First Year: Goldenrod, Aster, Wild Carrot, Butter 

 and Eggs. 



Second Year: Jamestown Weed, Sunflowers, Black- 

 eyed Susans, Asters. 



Third Year: Morning Glories, Pond Lilies, Iron Weed, 

 Thistle. 



Fourth Year: Nasturtium {Tropoeolum), Butter and 

 Eggs, Chicory, Goldenrod, Wild Carrot. 



The plants here assigned to the first year are, from 

 the botanist's standpoint, the most diflicult of all, but to 

 the lover and teacher of nature they present no more 

 obstacles than the simpler flowers. 



Beginning with the second year, teach the names of 

 the floral parts — calyx (sepals), corolla (petals), stamens, 

 pistil — and their uses. ISTote also the odor, presence of 

 nectar, and its meaning. Lay especial emphasis on the 



