Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Part 82

8. Stopping bleeding.

9. Putting on a splint.

10. Making a stretcher from uniform blanket or Scout neckerchief and poles.

11. The Schaefer method of artificial respiration.

REFERENCES:

Section on First Aid in this Handbook.

American Red Cross Abridged Text Books on First Aid, Blakiston.

[Ill.u.s.tration: FLOWER FINDER SYMBOL--FLOWER]

1. To pa.s.s this test a Scout must be able to tell the difference between plants and animals and the difference between the two general types of plants.

2. A Scout must also pa.s.s either the test for Flowers and Ferns or Trees given below.

A. FLOWERS AND FERNS

1. Make a collection of fifty kinds of wild flowers and ferns and correctly name them or make twenty-five photographs or colored drawings of wild flowers and ferns.

2. Why were the following ferns so named: Christmas Fern, Sensitive Fern, Walkingleaf Fern, Cinnamon Fern, Flowering Fern?

3. Name and describe twenty cultivated plants in your locality.

4. Be able to recognize ten weeds.

5. How can you distinguish Poison Ivy from Virginia Creeper? What part of Pokeweed is poisonous? What part of Jimsonweed is poisonous?

Be able to recognize at least one poisonous mushroom.

B. TREES

1. Give examples of the two great groups of trees and distinguish between them.

2. Why is forest conservation important? What are the laws of your State concerning forest conservation?

3. Mention at least three uses of trees.

4. Collect, identify and preserve leaves from twenty-five different species of trees.

5. Mention three trees that have opposite branching and three that have alternate.

6. How do the flower-buds of Flowering Dogwood differ from the leaf-buds? When are the flower-buds formed?

7. The buds of what tree are protected by a natural varnish?

8. Mention one whose outer bud-scales are covered by fine hairs. Can you find a tree that has naked buds?

9. From a Sa.s.safras-tree or from a Tulip-tree collect and preserve leaves of as many shapes as possible.

10. Name five trees in this country which produce edible nuts.

REFERENCES:

A. FLOWERS AND FERNS

"New Manual of Botany," Asa Gray, American Book Co.

"Ill.u.s.trated Flora of the Northern States and Canada," (three volumes), N. L. Britton, Brown and Addison, Scribner.

"Flower Guide," Chester A. Reed, Doubleday Page.

"Flora of the Southeastern States," John K. Small, published by the author, New York Botanical Garden.

"Flora of the Rocky Mountain Region," P. A. Rydberg, published by the author, New York Botanical Garden.

"State Floras."--There are some excellent State Floras, and in order to keep this list from being too long, it is suggested that the Scout leader write to the Professor of Botany in her State University and ask for the name, author and publisher of the best Flora of her State.

Especially is this advisable for those living in sections of the country not covered by the above references.

"Our Native Orchids," William Hamilton Gibson.

"Wild Flower Book for Young People," A. Lounsberry, Stokes.

"Field Book of American Wild Flowers," F. S. Matthews, Putnam.

"Emerald Story Book," A. M. Skinner, Duffield.

"Mushrooms," George F. Atkinson, Henry Holt Co., (See Handbook, "Scouting for Girls," Section on Woodcraft.)

B. TREES

REFERENCES:

"Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs," F. S. Matthews, Putnam.

"Trees of the Northern United States," Austin C. Apgar, American Book Co.

"Manual of Trees of North America," Charles S. Sargent, Houghton Mifflin Co.

"Handbook of the Trees of United States and Canada," Romeyn B. Hough, published by the author, Lowville, N. Y.

"Trees in Winter," A. F. Blakeslee, and C. D. Jarvis, Macmillan Co.

"The Book of Forestry," F. F. Moon, Appleton.