Children and gardens (1908) (14798658933)

Identifier: childrengardens00jeky (find matches)

Title: Children and gardens

Year: 1908 (1900s)

Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932

Subjects: Gardening Children Amusements

Publisher: London, Offices of 'Country life', ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's sons

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Text Appearing Before Image:

PEA FLOWERS AND PODS.

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BELL-FLOWERS. BOTANY 59 you can know them by the family likeness of theflower. We will begin with the Rose family. For thesake of clearness let us think of a single Rose; aSweetbrier or a wild Dog Rose, with its five petals.You will see what petals and all such words meanas we go on. The petals are the five coloured rose-leaves that fall off after the flower has been out fortwo or three days. Besides these, the Rose flower hasan outer fringe of green leafy things, and a knobbybase where it joins the stalk. The leafy bits that showbetween and behind the petals are called sepals. It isthe outside of the sepals that you see when the floweris in bud; and all the sepals together, joined to theknobby thing next the stalk, form what is calledthe calyx. The knobby part will swell into the fruit.In the case of the Rose, by the end of the summer itwill have grown into the Rose-fruit that we call thehip ; in the case of the Apple-tree it grows into anApple ; and when the Apple is formed you can

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