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NATURE STUDY 



Cinnamon Fern. I. Spore-bearing 

 leaf. II. Vegetative leaf. 111. 

 Magnified Fruit. 



Asters and Golden Rod, Helen 

 Hunt Jackson. 



September, Helen Hunt Jack- 

 son. 



Water Lily, Reynolds, Fairy 

 Land of Flowers. 



Petrified Fern, M. L. B. Branch, 

 Fairy Land of Flowers. 



Fringed Gentian, Bryant. 



Extracts from the Corn Song, 

 Whittier. 



Legend of Mondamiu (Corn), 

 Hiawatha. 



Blessing of the Cornfields, Hia- 

 watha. 



Chicory, Margaret Deland. 



Ferns, Tabb. 



Ferns, Song Echoes. 



Thistle, Alice Gary. 



ANIMALS 



In September there is abundance of insect life of all 

 kinds and in all stages. For their study in the school- 

 room, a home for larva?, and, if possible, another for the 

 adult forms, are needed. 



Glass aquaria, the tops covered with netting, will an- 

 swer the purpose. For caterpillars, there should be a 

 layer of earth, at least two inches deep, kept fairly 

 moist, and plenty of fresh leaves each day. It is a good 

 plan to keep these leaves in a narrow-necked bottle of 

 Avater. Unless the opening is Avell filled with the stems. 

 put them through a piece of cardboard or paper, thus 

 preventing the possibility of death to the larvae from 

 drowning. 



The adults, if butterflies or sphinx moths, need food in 



