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Methods . 



Make a point always of the fact that these flowers 

 bloom early because of the abundant supply of nourish- 

 ment ready for their use, stored up by the plant the year 

 before. 



The general method for the study of flowers in general 

 is sufficiently treated on p. 22 et seq. 



LITERATURE 



Myths and Stories : 



Little Ida's Flowers, Andersen. 



Legends of the Arbutus, )^ , t i- ht ^i 



^ * , ^ , „ . -r. . \ Emerson's Indian Myths. 

 Legend of the Spring Beauty, J 



Easy Poems : 



, ^, ^ , , ^ ,1 Eleanor Smith's 



The Little Flower Came from the Ground, \ „ . ^ .. ^, 



I- Songs for Little 

 The Flower Bed, j ^j^.,"^^^^_ 



Plant Household, 1^^.^^ Poulsson's In the Child's World. 



Little Plant, i 



Calling the Violet, Lucy Larcom. 



More Difficult Poems : 



The Voice of the Grass, Mary Howitt, 



The Grass, Emily Dickinson. 



Jack-in-the-pulpit, Whittier's Child Life. 



Violet, Barry Cornwall. 



Yellow Violet, Bryant. 



The First Flower, 1 



Trailing Arbutus, \ "Whittier. 



May Flower, 



A Laughing Chorus, 



The Violet, J. Tayl 



The Daffodils, Wordsworth. 



The Daffodils, Herrick. 



„ ,' I Loveioy's Nature in Verse, 

 raylor, / '' ^ 



