LITERATURE. Read one of the poems found in Plan Book, or Robert Burns' "To a Daisy." "The Daisy and the Lark," Hans Anderson, found in back of Plan Book. DRAWING. Draw a daisy plant as it looks growing in the field. Draw or cut and paste a daisy border. Make a silhouette of daisies with grasses THE DAISY. I'm a pretty little daisy, Always coming with the spring; At night I am a yellow ball; But in the morning when I wake, THE DAISY. The daisy is the meekest flower That grows in wood or field; In spring it dots the green with white, And so it is a favorite flower, Before the stars are in the sky, And folds its little shining leaves So children when they go to bed Should fold their hands in prayer, And place themselves and all they love, In God's protecting care. -Sel. THE FLOWER MISSION. Two little girls whose names were Violet and May lived in a large city. By the middle of June every year they went into the country to see their aunt. She lived on a large farm about ten miles from the city. Here the little girls stayed all summer, growing strong and brown in the country air. They were little flower lovers and picked so many that aunt Mabel never knew what to do with them. One year when they went to the farm they had a plan for doing good. Their teacher had told them of the Flower Mission and how much pleasure the flowers gave the little children and grown up people in the hospitals. Their mamma said that if they would send her a basketful of flowers twice a week while they were in the country, she would take them to the children's hospital. The first basket they sent was full of violets and daisies. They were picked early in the morning, put into a moss lined basket, sprinkled and covered with waxed paper. By noon every child in the hospital had a bunch of fresh flowers. Their mamma told them how happy the flowers had made a little lame girl who had never seen daisies before. The girl's name was Fanny. The next basket that went to the city was full of roses. Aunt Mabel took this basket. She felt so sorry for Fanny when she saw her that she asked the little lame girl to go home with her. The daisies and the country air proved to be good doctors, for little Fanny grew better very fast. She liked daisies better than any other kind of flowers. One day Violet and May sent so many daisies to the hospital that all the children could make daisy chains. The children made some of the daisies into faces, queer looking faces they were too. Some were thin, others were fat. Some looked like old women, some like young ladies, and others like girls or babies. Twice a week all summer the basket' was sent. Sometimes it was full of fruit. Violet and May took the last basketful and saw the children in the hospital. Don't you think they had a good plan for doing good? Are you going to the country this summer? Could you not make some little city children happy in this way too? -Our Little Ones. JUNE QUESTIONS. Things for pupils to find out. What flowers grow in the fields near your home? in the park? in your garden? in the school room windows? Do you like wild or garden flowers best? Why? What flowers are most common in your neighborhood? What is the most common color among the flowers? Did you ever see any green flowers? What were they? Why should flowers be colored? (To attract insects.) Why should flowers wish to attract insects? (In order to get their pollen or flower dust carried from flower to flower, in order to fertilize them.) What color do the bees like best? (Blue.) Why do bees visit flowers? What do they get beside honey? What do they do with the dust? How do they pay for the honey they get? How many ever saw a striped flower? What does it tell the bee? (Where to look for honey.) Did you ever see a spotted flower? What flowers are striped or spotted? Did you ever see more than one color in one flower? What attracts a bee to a flower beside the color? (Fragrance.) Are all flowers fragrant? What flowers are favorites on account of their fragrance? Is the fragrance of a flower always pleasant? What flowers do you know of that have a disagreeable odor? Do bees ever visit them? (These flowers do not need insects.) Of what use to us is the fragrance of a flower? Of what is perfume made? Of what use are flowers to us aside from their fragrance and beauty? Do they give us food? What do the peach and cherry blossoms give? The strawberry and apple blossoms? Did you ever hear of a flower seed that gave us a drink? (Coffee.) Medicine? (Opium, from the poppy.) Clothing? (The cotton.) What stems are useful? (Sugar cane, flax.) Leaves? (Tea.) THE CHERRY. THE PARTS OF A FLOWER. Write the parts of a flower on the board. The parts of a flower are the calyx, corolla, stamens and pistils. Use the cherry blossoms to illustrate. Explain to the children that the word calyx means cup. Let them find the circle of outside leaves, or sepals, which make the calyx. What color is the calyx? How many parts has it? What is it for? (To hold the corolla.) The thin leaves which are within a calyx make the corolla. Find the corolla. What color is it? In how many parts? What do we call these parts? Which are thicker, the white petals or green sepals? Is the corolla of a blossom always white? What color is the corolla of a buttercup? A violet? The stamens are slender, thread-like parts next inside the corolla. Has the cherry many stamens? What color are they? The pistil is a large thread in the middle of the flower. It does not have a yellow top. Find it. Are the stamens in other flowers like those in the cherry? Do all flowers have the same number? Are the stamens all the same length? On the top of these stamens you see some little heads. They are called anthers. Are they always the same color? After a flower has been opened a while there is a kind of dust on its anthers. This dust is very fine. We call it pollen. Sometimes if you touch a flower or smell it the pollen falls off. After the pollen falls the flower begins to fade. Of what use is the pol |