40 MANUAt OP NATURE STDDY. 



ownersliip by discovery, providing no mistake has 

 been made. The teacber will now go with the pu- 

 pils, visit all the trees and note the good hits as 

 well as the errors. 



Again, each pupil may be supplied with a few 

 pieces of bark, with direction to place walnut bark 

 with a walnut tree, hickory bark with a hickory tree, 

 and so on, each kind of bark with its respective kind 

 of tree. As before, the pupil should leave her name 

 on a piece of paper pinned to the bark so that the 

 teacher may know who discovered the tree. Test 

 again with nuts, acorns and other fruits to any ex- 

 tent the teacher may desire, or until the interest 

 begins to lag. To vary the program let the child- 

 ren gather a miscellaneous pile of leaves, then re- 

 quire the children to sit down and sort them, put- 

 ting leaves of one kind into one pile, of another 

 kind into another pile, thus making as many piles 

 as there are kinds of leaves. Try same plan with 

 bark. 



After an afternoon's outing of this kind there 

 will be no di£B.culty in fixing the association of bark 

 and leaf by reviews in the school room, which may 

 be done by holding a single leaf, or a single piece 

 of bark before the school for the judgment of the 

 pupils. 



To fix the habit and habitat of trees, questions 



