Show i botany in winter K I 1 feel convinced that if the teach oro ere were not opposed to it the sub 1 eject would ore ere now have been more widely taught and I 1 shall therefore say a few words in anticipation of difficulties difficulties it has been suggested r that materials would be scarce in S winter not at all lot let the childr ren be familiarized with the sk and comparison of the becu f of a sprig of holly as con brasted with one of ivy or let them 1 be shown how different are the buds L and leafless shoots of the beech from those of the oak or the horse chest cheat nut show them how to observe S the bud scales how to infer the leaf arrangement from the soars scars how to notice the color roughness SA S A markings etc of the perl derm gr or give them introductory notions t as am to the nature of a hyacinth bulb as contrasted with the potato tuber oon confining fining their attention to points which thel they can make out by observation every very nut or orange or apple that the child eats might be made interesting if teachers tea chern would t v dare step over the traces of conven tion and introduce such ostensible dangerous articles into and why not the doctrine of re r wards and aad punishments is applied ff 0 more cru crudely dely than this in most fe childrens schools |