: Flowers and their friends by Morley Margaret Warner - Plants Juvenile literature

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PAGE MORNING-GLORY STORIES 1 THE FLOWER 3 THIS IS THE FLOWER SO BRIGHT AND GAY 11 THE CALYX 13 BLOSSOM DEAR 14 WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN 16 THE OVULES 23 THE LEAVES 27 TO THE MORNING-GLORY 29 THE CONVOLVULUS FAMILY 30

STORIES ABOUT THE GERANIUM FAMILY 47 TROPAEOLUM STORIES: TROPAEOLUM HONEY 49 THE TROPAEOLUM 50 WHO LIES CURLED UP 57 MORE ABOUT THE TROPAEOLUM 58 JEWELWEED STORIES: A DAINTY CAVE 65 TOUCH-ME-NOT 66 EARDROPS 71 LADY'S SLIPPER 72 THE HUMMING BIRD 74 PELARGONIUM STORIES: THE PELARGONIUMS 75 AN AFRICAN 80 PELARGONIUM LEAVES 81 THE GERANIUM FAMILY 84

HYACINTH STORIES 93 THE HYACINTH 95 SIGNS OF SPRING 96 THE HYACINTH'S SCEPTRE 98 TUNICS 99 THE BEE 104

STORIES ABOUT ALL SORTS OF THINGS 105 NECTAR GUIDES 107 CELLS 108 POLLEN CELLS 120 THE POLLEN 127 THE ANTHERS 128 OVULE CELLS 129 CHLOROPHYLL 134 ROOT CELLS 144 SKIN CELLS 148 TUBE CELLS 162 STRENGTHENING CELLS 165 WE AND THE PLANT PEOPLE 168 WHAT ARE THE FLOWERS MADE OF 176 WHAT BECOMES OF THE FLOWERS 181 NOTHING BUT LEAVES 191 SIGNS OF OTHER TIMES 214 WHY ARE THE FLOWERS SO LARGE AND BRIGHT 218 HOW MOTHER NATURE MAKES NEW FLOWERS 223 TONGUES AND TUBES 231

Morning-Glory Stories.

THE FLOWER.

The morning-glory and the bracted bindweed might be taken for sisters, they look so much alike. There is no doubt but that they are closely related, although the bindweed grows wild and the morning-glory has to be sown by us.

The bindweed lives in the country and twines over the hedges by the roadside; you can see its pink-and-white flowers all summer long if you look in the right places.

It is a jolly sort of life the bindweed leads, always twining, twining, twining, with its leaves facing the sunshine and its flowers dancing on their slender stems.

We often call the bindweed the wild morning-glory, and we and the bees are fond of it. We enjoy looking at it, and probably the bees do, too, though they have yet another reason for liking it. Just watch one go into a wild morning-glory some fine day. You will think she expects to find something very delightful indeed from the way she hurries in. And so she does. She buzzes down the white line to the very bottom of the flower, crowds her head as far in as she can get it, and then thrusts her long brown tongue yet deeper in to where the honey lies. For the flower makes honey for the bee, and keeps it hidden as deep as possible. There are five openings in the bottom of the flower cup that go straight into the honey wells. You need only look into a morning-glory and you will see them. All kinds of morning-glories, as well as the bindweeds, have them.

The bees know this, and wherever you see the morning-glories you will see their little winged friends.

Very many flowers provide honey for the insects, and it is fortunate for us that they do; for if they did not, we should see no butterflies and have no honey, for butterflies and bees cannot live without the honey the flowers give them.

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