AGRICULTURAL NATURE STUDY OUTLINES 
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What ones blossom after the snow is gone? What ones blossom before 
school closes? Put list on the board. Keep a wild flower calendar. 
Talk briefly about the conditions under which wild flowers grow. 
What is each child’s favorite wild flower? Start a wild flower garden 
in one corner of the school yard. 
Cultivated flowers .—From conversations with pupils make a list 
on the board of all different varieties of cultivated flowers growing 
around the various homes in the district. Find out a few things as 
to their care and value about the home. How many of these varieties 
are found on the school ground? When do these various flowers 
blossom ? Are they grown from seed ? Is it necessary to sow the seed 
every year? If not started from seed, then how? Test observation 
and interest by asking children to watch certain plants for a week 
and report all things of interest they may see. The detailed study 
of any flowering plant, wild or tame, should be left for later years. 
Harvest Festival .—The crowning event in the study of plant life 
during the year should be the exhibition in the schoolroom of the best 
products of the field, orchard, garden, and roadside. This, of course, 
should be participated in by the entire school. Thanksgiving is a 
good time for this expression of appreciation of the earth’s goodness. 
