LEAF PRINTS 299 



TO MAKE A PORTFOLIO CASE 



This is a very neat bit of manual training and if done well will 

 add greatly to the enjoyment of the tree study. Pasteboard, or 

 old book covers, about 9 by 12 may be used. These should have 

 tape pasted on the inside with ends projecting for six inches, then 

 over these pieces of tape should be pasted very thoroughly a lining 

 of strong paper or thin cardboard. The outside of the portfolio 

 may be ornamented with a leaf print or other device pasted on, and 

 the edges of the cover and lining be bound with passe-partout paper 

 Or the two covers may have the back fastened together like the 

 back of a book, allowing an inch and a half for thickness. 



The teaching value of the leaf portfolio lies in the accurate 

 labelling of each print. Through doing this the pupil soon comes 

 to know all the trees by their leaves. 



A leaf-print portfolio of common shrubs would naturally follow 

 the one on trees ; and when the study of botany is begun in first 

 year High, a portfolio of leaf prints of all sorts of plants will be of 

 great help. 



Said the little brown leaf as it hung in the air, 

 To the little brown leaf below, 

 'What a summer we've had 

 To rejoice and be glad, 

 But to-day there's a feeling of snow.' " 



— Margaret E. Sangster. 



'I find sweet peace in depth of autumn woods, 



Where grow the ragged ferns and roughened moss ; 



The naked, silent trees have taught me this, 

 The loss of beauty is not always loss." 



— Elizabeth Stoddard. 



