Staminate Blossoms of White Ash. 

 Photo by G. F. Morgan 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



The American Ash — Mae Creswell - 279 



The Birch Tree— Poem - - - - 284 



What a Tree is and how it Grows - - - - 285 



A Graded Course in Tree-Study - 290 



Leaf Prints - - - - - 297 

 Suggestions for Forestry Study in the English Grade or First Year 



High School — George H. Russell - 300 

 The Teaching of Plant Diseases in the Grades 



— William Gould Vinal 303 



The Birches — H. Marguerite Hess - 307 



Putting "Pep" into die Field Trip— C. C. Leeson - - 317 

 Editorial - - - - -• -319 



Book Shelf ------ 321 



Anna B. Comstock, Editor 



associate editors 



Susan Sipe Albertis 

 Prof. J. Andrew Drushel 

 Prof. John Dearness 

 Miss Cora A. Smith 



Washington, D. C. 



St. Louis, Mo. 



London, Ontario 



Erie, Penna. 



Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Ithaca. N 

 under the Act of March 3, 1870 



