ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGEFrontispieceDavy's window—Prue's window19The beans at the end of two weeks23The morning-glories two weeks old27The pot of radishes35The pease two weeks old37The corn at the end of two weeks47The pease run up straight ladders53A member of the pulse family59The morning-glory twines to the right65The nasturtiums began to hide the little pot75The very small lettuce leaves81Davy's pot of radishes93"Davy's corn sent out a plume at the top"97"The morning-glories had bloomed and already had seedpods"113"Cabbage" was the fat fellow's name115"They called it nasturtium"121Alyssum—the sweetest of the "Cross" family123"Don't you think the blackberry looks a little like a wildrose?"135"And the apple blossom, too?"139Budding149The Chief Gardener's strawberries161Big, big berries that looked so good165The rose stamens and pistil which produce the seed175"Gardeners often take a rose of one kind and shake itgently over a rose of another kind"178"Sometimes the gardener takes up the pollen on a softbrush and lays it gently on the stigma of anotherrose"179The pistil and stamens of the lily192A pistil and calyx and a complete flower193A group of endogens—the lily, hyacinth, and daffodil195Some simple leaves217Pine-needles are leaves218There is a lot of kinds and shapes221"Beware of the vine with the three-part leaf"253The dandelion is bound to spread its seed256"So it blooms below the lawn-mower's cutting-wheel"257"They cling to everything that passes"269Three members of the acorn family277The apple is a calyx. The pistil is the core inside of it283A raspberry is a cluster of pistils without the core285The seed and sets of the onion295A black raspberry vine preparing to spread299"What are stuck-ins?—oh, slips!"301The wool that grows on the sheep's back is there becausethe sheep feeds on the green grass in summer307A Japanese fern-ball316The kind of a tree that nobody but Santa Claus ever raises323
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