| | | |  | |  | | | | | Leaf Collection Leaves should be pressed to make a good collection. Place leaves on five or six sheets of newspaper on a board or other flat surface, cover with newspaper, top with another flat sur-face and weigh down heavily with books or rocks.
When thoroughly dry, tape or glue the leaves to a scrap-book page or piece of cardboard. Paste a label beneath, or write in the name of the tree, where found, its type and uses. If possible, sketch a picture of the tree. To glue to slick sur-faces such as oilcloth or glass, use a mixture of glue and vin-egar in equal parts, pressing until dry.
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Tie or plastic-tape one twig of each type of tree to the twig collection cardboard, or to the tree collection ( 161). Place the other twig in deep water. If possible, sketch the buds and leaves as the twig in water begins to open, and place this with the twig from the same tree. An Audubon Society leaflet and chart will teach identification of twigs (for address, see 4). A few comparisons will quickly show how even “dead” branches differ.
WOOD COLLECTIONS: When dead branches are available, choose bark-covered samples of various woods that are per-haps one inch around, 5 inches long. Cut the sample halfway
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