So8 NATURE-STUDY 



unnecessary or unpromising egg-collecting and shooting. 

 Read from Audubon, Burroughs, Torrey, Miller, etc. De- 

 velop love and protection for birds. Encourage formation of 

 Audubon society. Discuss the vt^ork done by this society. 

 Discourage the use of plumage. Show the girls the cruelty 

 of it. How we may attract the birds to our homes. (Chap. 

 X, 479> 478, ii3> "7. 108, 109.) 



Plants. 



FLOVi^ERS : Review of the plants * learned in previous 

 grades. Collect, press, and mount in herbarium. Do not 

 waste flowers. Dig up wild flowers and place them in school 

 or home garden. Note peculiar habitats, adaptations, type 

 of flower, and pecuhar adaptations of the flowers, fruit and 

 seed dispersal, economic value. (168 to 187, 190 to 215.) 



Make a comparative study * of the following families, 

 noting similarity in flower, fruit, etc. — a family likeness : 



Crowfoot Family: Marsh marigold, buttercup, hepatica, 

 windflower, columbine. 



Mustard Family: Shepherd's-purse, sweet alyssum, candy- 

 tuft, horseradish, radish, cabbage, turnip, field mustard. 



Violet Family: Blue, yellow, and white violets, cultivated 

 violet, pansy. 



Pea Family : Sweet pea, garden pea, bean, vetch, ground- 

 plum, red clover, white clover, alfalfa, melilot, prairie clover, 

 wistaria, locust, peanut, sensitive plant. 



Rose Family: Wild and cultivated, plum, cherry, peach, 

 spirea, fivefinger, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, haw- 

 thorne, pear, apple, mountain ash. 



Gourd Family: Cucumber, squash, pumpkin, watermelon, 

 musk melon, gourds. 



