30 ETON NATUKE-STUDY 



PART III A SPRING TWIG 

 PREPARATIONS FOR WORK 



Distribute horse-chestnut twigs, bearing a terminal, and one or two lateral 

 buds. 



DIRECTIONS TO THE PUPIL 



(4) Compare the buds on the horse-chestnut tree with the drawing 

 made in Lesson XIII, Part I, page 123. Make a note of any 

 changes which have taken place and say whether the appearance 

 of the buds has altered since the winter. 



(5) Make a sketch of the bud at the end of the twig, drawing it 

 carefully to scale. Note down the colour, consistency and number 

 of the enclosing scales of the bud, so far as you can see from the 

 outside. 



Note : The twigs must be put into water for use until next lesson. 



SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER WORK IN SCHOOL 



Other buds may be provided and the leaves carefully removed 

 one by one until the ordinary foliage leaves, carefully packed 

 away, and possibly a bunch of flowers, in the centre, are dis- 

 covered. 



SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER WORK OUT OF SCHOOL 



It would not be amiss for some of the pupils to choose another 

 bud growing out of doors on the tree and to make sketches of it for 

 comparison with those taken from the bud kept in water. 



