NATURE STUDY MADE EASY 



Ruth. " Why the blooming rose I prize 

 Is that nothing 'neath the skies 

 Blooms to which a power is given 

 Greater than this gift of heaven." 



Edith "Twine the lily with the rose, 

 and Still as emblems, they'll disclose 

 Ruth. Truth and beauty, peace and love, 



Sent to earth from heaven above." 



SELECTED. 



LESSON II 



NEEDS OF PLANTS: PART II 



"Come, Susan, come, Alice, it is time for tea; Ned.and Tom are 

 here, and mamma says the table is ready." 



"Oh, Mary, may I bring your pretty pink rose to put on the 

 table for our tea party?" asked Louisa, and so saying, she placed 

 the vase with the freshly cut rose on the center mat. 



"Oh, is that your rose?" asked Lucy, who had just come in. 

 "How lovely it looks. I must run and fetch mine." She returned 

 in a few minutes with a sad face, holding in her hand the now 

 faded flower that had been so beautiful in the morning. The 

 leaves were shrunken, the color had faded, the stem was limp. 



"Why, what is the matter?" asked the children; "is your 

 rose dead?" 



"I do not know. I left it on the window sill, and how different 

 \t is from Mary's." 



