“To make collections of leaves and flowers, pressed and mounted, and arranged according to their form, affords much pleasure, and, what is better, valuable training in the noticing of differences and resemblances…The power to classify, discriminate, distinguish between things that differ, is amongst the highest faculties of the human intellect, and no opportunity to cultivate it should be let slip; but a classification got out of books, that the child does not make or himself, cultivates no power but that of verbal memory.” Mason Vol. 1:63-64
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| Sugar Maple, summer leaf, autumn leaf, and seed pods. |
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| Dogwood – summer leaf, bud, and berries. |
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| Eastern White Pine – needles, and cone. |
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| Tulip Poplar – summer leaf, autumn leaf, seeds |
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| Honey Locust – thorns, seed pod |
