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about it: its height, breadth, and general shape; the 

 height above the ground at which it begins to branch ; the 

 direction taken by the branches; the bark; the arrange- 

 ment of the branches, the arrangement of the leaves, 

 the buds, and, if possible, the flower, fruit, and wood. 



•LITERATURE 



Myths and Stories : 



Apollo and Daphne. 



Baucis and Philemon. 



Pan and Apollo. 



The Vine and the Oak, Emerson's Indian Myths. 



Old Piper and the Piper of the Dryad, Frank Stockton. 



The Walnut Tree that Wanted to Bear Tulips, Wiltse's Stories. 



Last Dream of the Old Oak, Andersen. 



Legend of the Poplar, Marah Pratt's Fairy Land of Flowers. 



Oak and the Ivy, Eugene Field. 



Poems : 



The Birch Tree, 



The Oak, 



The Beggar, \ Lowell. 



Rhoecus, 



The Maple, 



Hiawatha's Canoe, Longfellow. 



Planting of the Apple Tree, i „ 



-n- ^xi > Bryant. 



lorest Hymn, J 



The Tree, Bjornsen. 



The Tree, Jones Very. 



The Early Spring Flowers : 



Of these, the following, all of which may be easily 

 obtained, even in the city, should certainly be taught in 

 every classroom : 



Spring Beauty (Claytonia Vircjinica), the Trailing Ar- 

 butus {Epigcea repens), the Common Blue Violet (Viola 



