Flowers and Their Friends

About this eBook

Author

Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858-1923

Title

Flowers and their friends

Original Publication

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1897.

Credits

Richard Tonsingand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QK: Science: Botany

Subject

Plants -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72776

Release Date

January 21, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Flowers and Their Friends
2. 2.A LETTER TO THE READERS OF THIS BOOK.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.Morning-Glory Stories. — THE FLOWER. — THIS IS THE FLOWER SO BRIGHT AND GAY. — THE CALYX. — BLOSSOM DEAR. — WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN. — THE OVULES — THE LEAVES. — TO THE MORNING-GLORY. — THE CONVOLVULUS FAMILY.
5. 5.Stories About the Geranium Family — TROPÆOLUM STORIES. — TROPÆOLUM HONEY. — THE TROPÆOLUM. — WHO LIES CURLED UP? — MORE ABOUT THE TROPÆOLUM. — JEWELWEED STORIES. — A DAINTY CAVE. — TOUCH-ME-NOT. — EARDROPS. — LADY’S SLIPPER. — THE HUMMING BIRD. — PELARGONIUM STORIES. — THE PELARGONIUMS. — AN AFRICAN. — PELARGONIUM LEAVES. — THE GERANIUM FAMILY.
6. 6.Hyacinth Stories — THE HYACINTH. — SIGNS OF SPRING. — THE HYACINTH’S SCEPTRE. — TUNICS. — THE BEE.
7. 7.STORIES ABOUT ALL SORTS OF THINGS — NECTAR GUIDES. — CELLS. — POLLEN CELLS. — THE POLLEN. — THE ANTHERS. — OVULE CELLS. — CHLOROPHYLL. — ROOT CELLS. — SKIN CELLS. — TUBE CELLS. — STRENGTHENING CELLS. — WE AND THE PLANT PEOPLE. — WHAT ARE THE FLOWERS MADE OF? — WHAT BECOMES OF THE FLOWERS? — NOTHING BUT LEAVES. — SIGNS OF OTHER TIMES. — WHY ARE THE FLOWERS SO LARGE AND BRIGHT? — HOW MOTHER NATURE MAKES NEW FLOWERS. — TONGUES AND TUBES.
8. 8.GLOSSARY. — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. — J. — K. — L. — M. — N. — O. — P. — Q. — R. — S. — T. — U. — V. — W.

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