Material 
THE APPLE 
Two apples, preferably red, for each pupil. Pins, or wooden toothpicks ; 
knives. Just previous to the lesson the teacher should have pared several 
apples, or at least enough to give an inch or more of peel to each pupil at § 11. 
Keep these in water to prevent drying and discoloration, but before giving 
out remove surplus water on a soft towel or blotter. 
Laboratory Work 
1. Take an apple in your hand and notice — 
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Color. 
Shape. 
General size. 
Marks, if any. 
Texture of shin; shininess. 
“Feel” of skin. 
Stem and stem end, 
End opposite to stem, or blossom end. 
2. Has the apple a smell ? 
3. Has the apple a pinch-sound ? 
4. Look carefully at the stem and stem end; describe 
this end and the way the stem. tits in it. 
5. Examine the blossom end; do you see jive little diy 
points sunk into a kind of pit? 
6. Feel the skin. Now rub one cheek of the apple 
briskly upon your sleeve; what happens? 
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