. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Tree Study 78s 7. Describe the young leaves as they appear around the blossoms. What is their color? Have they any stipules? Why do they make the flowers look like a bouquet ? 8. After the petals fall, what of the blossom remains? What part develops into the apple? Does this part enclose the ovaries of the pistils? How can you tell in the ripe apple if any stigma failed to receive pollen ? 9. What is the position of the calyx-lobes directly after the petals fall? Do they change later
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Tree Study 78s 7. Describe the young leaves as they appear around the blossoms. What is their color? Have they any stipules? Why do they make the flowers look like a bouquet ? 8. After the petals fall, what of the blossom remains? What part develops into the apple? Does this part enclose the ovaries of the pistils? How can you tell in the ripe apple if any stigma failed to receive pollen ? 9. What is the position of the calyx-lobes directly after the petals fall? Do they change later ? How does this affect spraying for the codling moth ? 10. Watch an apple develop; look at it once a week and tell what parts of the blossom remain with the apple. 11. How many blossoms come from one winter bud? How many leaves? Do the blossoms ever appear along the sides of the branches, as in the cherries? How many blossoms from a single bud develop into apples? 12. Since the apple is developed on the tip of the twig how does the twig keep on growing ? 13. Compare the applewith the pear, the plum, the cherry andthepeach in the following particulars; position on the twigs; number of petals; number and color of stamens; number of pistils; whether the pistils are attached to the calyx-cup at the base. THE APPLE Teacher's Story "Man fell with, apples and with apples rose. If this be true; for we must deem the mode In which Sir Isaac Newton could disclose, Through the then unpaved stars, the turnpike road, A thing to counterbalance human ;—Byron. jPPLES seem to have played a very important part in human history, and from the first had much effect upon human destiny, judging from the trouble that ensued both to Adam and to Helen of Troy from meddling, even though indirectly, with this much esteemed fruit. It is surely no more than just to humanity—shut out from the Garden of Eden—that the apple should have led Sir Isaac Newton to discover the law which holds us
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