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three or four. In the next stage the roots have grown 

 larger, and one more is added to the rest. The branch 

 is showing itself. It is not crooked on top, but grows 

 straight up. Next we find the blade coming out of a 

 covering called the sheath. This sheath is there to 

 protect the wheat until above the ground. The sheath 

 is white, and the blade is green. Parallel veining is in 

 the wheat. 



Lastly, everything is grown larger. The roots increase 

 in number and are longer. 



ADDITIONAL LITERATURE 



Poems for the Moxths. 



There is a stanza or more descriptive of each mouth in 

 the following books and poems : 



Little Folks' Lyrics, F. D. Slieriuau. 



Poems, Helen Hunt Jackson. 



Poets' Calendar, Longfellow. 



The Months, Mary Howitt. 



September, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Poems. 



October, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Poems. 



October, Lucy Larcom. 



October, Margaret E. Sangster, in Easter Bells. 



November, Lucy Larcom. 



November, Susan Coolidge. 



November, R. H. Stoddard. 



December, Mary E. Blake, Poems. 



April ! April Are You Here, Dora Goodale. 



April Snow Storm, George H. Boker. 



April, Susan Coolidge. 



April the Handmaiden, Nora Perry, in New Songs and BaUads, 



May, T, B. Aldrich. 



May, Susan Coolidge. 



