THE STRAWBERRY 
Material 
Four or five strawberries. Pins; knives. Allow one box of berries to 
twenty pupils if the berries are very large, otherwise one box to thirty. If 
possible have leaves also. Pressed leaves will do if fresh ones cannot be 
found. Where a whole plant in flower or fruit cannot be obtained use the 
accompanying plate. 
Laboratory Work 
1. Take a strawberry in your hand and notice — 
a. Color. 
b. Shape. 
ce. Size, as compared with an apple, a pea, a pin- 
head. 
d. Small seeds on the outside. 
e. Stem and hull. 
f. Difference between the two ends. 
2. Has the strawberry a smell? Describe it. 
3. Has the strawberry a pinch-sound? Pinch the berry 
very carefully. Try to guess what it will be like 
inside when you cut it open. 
4. Notice the stem and hull. Count the small leaves of 
which the hull is made. Do these leaves meet each 
other before they reach the stem and form a little 
round plate out of which the stem grows? 
NATURE STUDY —9 129 
