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ownership by discovery, providing no mistake has 
been made. The teacher will now go with the pu¬ 
pils, visit all the trees and note the good hits as 
well as the errors. 
Again, each pupil may be supplied with a few 
pieces of bark, with direction to place walnut bark 
with a walnut tree, hickory bark with a hickory tree, 
and so on, each kind of bark with its respective kind 
of tree. As before, the pupil should leave her name 
on a piece of paper pinned to the bark so that the 
teacher may know who discovered the tree. Test 
again with nuts, acorns and other fruits to any ex¬ 
tent the teacher may desire, or until the interest 
begins to lag. To vary the program let the child¬ 
ren gather a miscellaneous pile of leaves, then re¬ 
quire the children to sit down and sort them, put¬ 
ting leaves of one kind into one pile, of another 
kind into another pile, thus making as many piles 
as there are kinds of leaves. Try same plan with 
bark. 
After an afternoon’s outing of this kind there 
will be no difficulty in fixing the association of bark 
and leaf by reviews in the school room, which may 
be done by holding a single leaf, or a single piece 
of bark before the school for the judgment of the 
pupils. 
To fix the habit and habitat of trees, questions 
