Chapter 11

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