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Rh The Scouts must also notice prominent buildings as landmarks, and the number of turnings off the street they are using.

—Take the patrol out for a walk and teach the girls to notice distant prominent features such as hills, church steeples, and so on; and as nearer landmarks such things as peculiar buildings, trees, rocks, gates, by-roads or paths, nature of fences, crops, different kinds of trees, birds, animals, tracks, people, vehicles, etc. Also any peculiar smells of plants, animals, manure, etc.; whether gates or doors were open or shut, whether any smoke from chimney, etc.

Send Scouts out in pairs.

It adds to the value of the practice if the instructor, makes a certain number of small marks in the ground beforehand, or leaves buttons or matches, etc., for the girls to notice or to pick up and bring in (as a means of making them examine the ground close to them as well as distant objects.)

—Take out Scouts to get specimens of leaves, fruits, or blossoms of various trees, shrubs, etc., and observe the shape and nature of the tree both in summer and in winter.

Collect leaves of different trees; let Scouts make tracings of them and write the name of the tree on each.

In the country make Scouts examine crops in all stages of their growth, so that they know pretty well by sight what kind of crop is coming up.

''Start gardens if possible; either a patrol garden or individual Scout gardens. Let them grow flowers and ''