Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study · Ontario. Department of Education

CHAPTER XI. FORM III: SPRING

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Window Boxes 201

Window Gardens 201 Suitable Plants; Fertilizer 202

Soil Studies—constituents 203

Garden Work 206 Tree Seeds 207 Transplanting—flowers, vegetables, tree seedlings 208 Budding 209 Cuttings—leaf cuttings, root cuttings, layering 211 Planting and Care of Herbaceous Perennials 212 Garden Studies—biennials 212

Wild Flowers 213 Study of the Trillium 213 Class-room lesson on the specimens 213

Adaptations of Animals 215

Bird Types 217 Woodpeckers—the downy woodpecker; observations 217 Flycatchers 219 Wrens 219

Insect Types 220 Cabbage-butterfly 220 Tussock-moth 221 Potato beetle 222 References 222

Fish—Observations; problems; references 223