CONTENTS 



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Introduction by Dr. G. Stanley Hall . . . xiii 



Chai'thr 



I. The Point of View i 



II. Values of Nature Study . . . . 17 



III. Children's Animals and Pets ... 33 



IV. Plan for Insect Study 45 



V. Insects of the Household . . . .62 



VI. Lessons with Plants 91 



VII. Elementary Botany 102 



VIII. Garden Studies, — Home and School Gardens 121 

 IX. Nature-Study Property of Children . 139 

 X. Nature-Study Property (Continued^, — Gar- 

 den Fruits 147 



XI. Propagation of Plants . . . . 155 



XII. Insects of the Garden 181 



XIII. Garden Insects {Continued^ . . . 202 



XIV. Beneficial Insects, — the Honeybee . . 228 

 XV. Insects Beneficial and Beautiful . . 246 



XVI. Insectivorous Animals, — ^the Common Toad . 274 



XVII. Common Frogs and Salamanders . . 295 



XVIII. Our Common Birds . . . . . . 305 



XIX. The Bird Census and Food Chart . . 319 

 XX. Practical Domestication of our Wild 



Birds 327 



