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Show llotany In Winter. I feel convinced that, if the teachers were not opposed to it, the subject would ere now have been more widely taught, und I shall therefore say a few words in anticipation of difficulties. It has been suggested that materials would be scarce in winter. Not at all. Let the children bo familiarized with the observation and comparison of the peculiarities pecul-iarities of a sprig of holly as contrasted with erne of ivy, or let them bo showu how different are the buds and leafless shoots of tiie beech from those of the oak or a horse chtfstnut. Show them how to observe the bud scale's, how to infer the leaf arrangement from tho scars, how to notice the color, roughness, rough-ness, markings, etc., of the pei idorm. Or give them introductory notions as to the nature of a hyaeiuth bulb as contrasted con-trasted with tho potato tuber, confining their attention to points which they can make out by observation. Every nut or orange or apple that the child cais might ! bo mado inte'rest.ing if teachers would dure step over the traces of convention and introduce such ostensibly dangerous article's into classwork. And why not? The doctrine of rewards and punishments punish-ments ia applied moie crudely than thii 1 most ahildren'a school. Prof cs Slarshall Ward ia Popular Science |