98 NATURE STUDY 



Why not ? How can we make it believe that winter has 

 come and gone ? 



Either a hyacinth or a narcissus bulb should then be 

 placed in a glass so that the lower end just touches 

 water. Keep them for six weeks in a cool, dark place ; 

 or, better still, plant them in a pot of earth sunk in the 

 ground, and covered with manure and straw to prevent 

 a succession of freezings and subsequent thawings. At 

 the end of six weeks, either the glass or the pot may be 

 brought in the light and warmth, and will probably 

 bloom within two months. 



One is apt to have better luck with bulbs planted in a 

 pot, but those growing in a glass show beautifully the 

 long roots protected at the tip by a root cap. 



In growing in a glass, be careful to keep the water 

 pitre. Cloudy water means bacteria, and these will 

 cause decay of the roots. Even when in the dark the 

 glasses should be examined weekly, and the water 

 changed when necessary. Keep a piece of charcoal in 

 the water. 



The same method should be pursued with at least one 

 of the edible roots. 



LITERATURE 



Stories : 



Kind Old Oak, Marah Pratt's Little Flower Folk. 



Baby Bud's Winter Clothes, Emilie Poulsson's In the Child's 



World. 

 The Anxious Leaf, Beecher's Norwood. 



Easy Poems : 



Do the Little Brown Twigs Complain ? ■> Eleanor Smith's Songs 

 Come Little Leaves. J for Little Children. 



I'll Tell You How the Leaves Come Down, Susan Coolidge. 



