. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 796 Handbook of Nature-Study g. How long do the pine trees live? Write a story of all that has happened to your neighborhood since the pine tree which you have been studying was planted. lo. Make the following drawings: A bundle of pine needles showing the sheath and its attachment to the twig; the cone; the cone scale; the seed. Sketch a pine tree. Supplementary reading—Trees in Prose and Poetry, pp. 32, 151, 152; The Spirit of the Pine, Bayard Taylor; To a Pine Tree, Lowell; Nature
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. 796 Handbook of Nature-Study g. How long do the pine trees live? Write a story of all that has happened to your neighborhood since the pine tree which you have been studying was planted. lo. Make the following drawings: A bundle of pine needles showing the sheath and its attachment to the twig; the cone; the cone scale; the seed. Sketch a pine tree. Supplementary reading—Trees in Prose and Poetry, pp. 32, 151, 152; The Spirit of the Pine, Bayard Taylor; To a Pine Tree, Lowell; Nature in Verse, pp. 15, 288. THE NORWAY SPRUCE Teacher's Story rHE Norway spruce is a native of Europe, and we find it in America the most satisfactory of all spruces for ornamental planting; it lifts its slender cone from almost every park and private estate in our country, and is easily distinguished from all other evergreens by the drooping, pen- dant habit of its twigs, which seem to hang down from the straight, uplifted branches. We have spruces of our own—the black, the white and the red spruces; and it will add much to the interest of this lesson for the pupils to read in the tree and forestry books concerning these American species. Chewing gum and spruce beer are the products of the black and red spruce of our eastern forests. The Douglas spruce, which is a fir and not a spruce, is also commonly planted as an ornamental tree, but. J i .. ^«pi i k. 1 1 ^ i M BkN Il 11 ^ii il I* s \ W/ "^ A i 1 ^H m fc i ^u^,, ia'^i VmTr/mSmSSSHi [UiUb WnlnwB III % k. ^^^.. m ^^K9^ MB ^ Iwttl m/ ^S^^^fT y^nS* ^Bai ^^BBMuI K^ ..> „:.; ' '..J^^ J^ ^^mf^ >^!itta ^^^^^^ra Staminale blossoms and young cone of a Norway spruce Photo by G. F. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Comstock, Anna
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