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of Agriculture should not be neglected. The Weather-Bureau might also suggest 

 interesting matter bearing on the successful development of a school-garden. 

 Increase the school-room Hbrary by sending to the State and National 

 Departments of Agriculture for bulletins and pamphlets. 



II. CITY SCHOOLS 



To the indoor arrangements given above, add any Audubon Society or 

 museum loan-material available; if provided with a stereopticon, have a short, 

 illustrated talk; give each pupil if possible, a nature picture which he may 

 mount on a pasteboard back and take home to keep. If the room Ukes to choose 

 its favorite bird, flower, tree or animal for the year, let the picture represent 

 that. Spend ten minutes having each pupil say in a word what interests him 

 most in nature. Have a map colored to represent Bird and Game and Forest 

 Reservations in the United States. 



Outdoors, assuming that there is no garden and only a paved yard, use win- 

 dow-boxes for planting seeds (to be carried indoors later). If possible, let each 

 pupil take home a two-inch flower-pot containing a sprouting seed or seedling, to 

 be tended and brought back for exhibit at the close of school in June. After 

 the exhibit, prizes might be awarded and the plants given outright to the pupils 

 for their home-yard or garden. — A. H. W. 



TREES, PLANTS AND SHRUBS ATTRACTIVE TO BIRDS 



(See 'The Protection of Birds,' E. H. Forbush) 



Consult also "Methods of Attracting Birds," by Gilbert H. Trafton; "How to 

 Attract and Protect Wild Birds," Von Berlepsch Method, National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, 141 Broadway, New York City; "School Gardens," Bulletin No. 

 160, Office of Experiment Stations, United States Department of Agriculture; "Nature- 

 Study and Life," by C. F. Hodge; Cornell Study Leaflets, Bird and Arbor Day 

 Annuals, apply to State Commissioner of Education. 



Wild Sarsaparilla 

 Mountain Ash 

 Sumac 

 Red Elder 

 Sweet Elder 

 Sweet Gum 

 Virginia Creeper 

 Red Mulberry 

 Russian Mulberry 

 Black Alder 



American Holly 

 Bittersweet 

 Golden-rod 

 Millet 



Cranberry Tree 

 Barberry 

 Shad Bush 

 Bayberry 

 Wild Rose 



Catbrier 

 Spice Bush 

 Sour Gum 

 Dogwood 

 Partridge Berry 

 Red Cedar 

 Ground Juniper 

 Sunflower 

 Weed-seeds 



