when the sun
is bright. Plant them about half an inch deep and keep them watered if
the weather is dry during the first summer.

NOTE.--The cones drop their seeds from high up in the tree so that the
wind can carry the seeds long distances. The cones usually stay on the
trees for a couple of years after they lose their seeds.

CORRELATIONS

Draw a pine tree, a bunch of pine needles, a pine cone, and a pine
seed.

Write a description of a pine tree seen in the woods; also of one found
in the open.

Write a list of things for which the white pine is useful.

_To the teacher._--The winter months, besides affording an opportunity
for seeing trees and plants in their dormant or quiescent condition,
also afford an opportunity for reading and reflection, for recalling
observations and experiences of the past season, and for making plans
for work and study in the school garden, woods, and fields when spring
returns. The knowledge gained by the pupils through first-hand
observation of trees, flowers, and gardens can be greatly extended by
pictures and stories descriptive of these, which the teacher may from
time to time bring to the school-room. Their personal experiences will
be the basis for interpretation of many new things which will come up in
the reading lessons, in selections which the teacher reads from week to
week, and in books and papers which they themselves read in their homes.
Thus the interest that is aroused by the first-hand studies of plants in
garden, orchard, or woodland will be carried over from autumn to spring,
and the pupils, with the awakening of spring, will take up anew the
study of plant life with a keener interest because of the time given to
reading and reflection during the winter. Illustrated magazines dealing
with gardening and with the study of trees and plants, and such
magazines as have a children's department, will prove of great
assistance to the teacher who makes any serious attempt to interest
pupils in plant studies. Stories of life in the woods and of plant
studies suitable to young pupils should be used.

REFERENCES

Margaret Morley: _Flowers and their Friends._ Ginn & Co. 50 cents.

Margaret Morley: _Seed Babies._ Ginn & Co. 25 cents.

Margaret Morley: _Little Wanderers._ Ginn & Co. 30 cents.

Alice Lounsberry: _The Garden Book for Young People._ Stokes. $1.50.

Gertrude Stone: _Trees in Prose and Poetry._ Ginn & Co. 45 cents.

COMPARATIVE LESSON ON VARIETIES OF WINT