This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...that is, a plant which, like the Pine and the Hemlock, keeps its foliage all winter. And as to the " sandy, old place" in which you found them, that just is the very best kind of soil to find them in. They could not live in the heavy, rich soil of our gardens. This flower is a sister to the Huckleberry, the Cranberry, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...that is, a plant which, like the Pine and the Hemlock, keeps its foliage all winter. And as to the " sandy, old place" in which you found them, that just is the very best kind of soil to find them in. They could not live in the heavy, rich soil of our gardens. This flower is a sister to the Huckleberry, the Cranberry, the Checkerberry; it has, too, some aristocratic sisters in the Rhodora, the Azalea, the Laurel. All flower children belong to the TRAILING ARBUTUS May Flower). HEATH FAMILY. The Heaths are 1. Monopetalous. 2. They are distinguished generally by the anthers opening by a little pore or hole at the top of each cell. 3. They are twice as many, or just as many stamens as petals Now let us examine this little flower. Notice this pretty, tube-shaped corolla, divided at the top, so that at first glance one might almost think it polypetalous. Cut the corolla open, Ned, so that we prove that it is monopetalous. And how nicely it fits into this little cup-shaped calyx! How plainly we can see the one pistil! And the ten stamens, with the little yellow anther on the top. And do you notice anything unusual about the 3tem? "The stem is woolly or hairy; then, too, the inside of the corolla is covered with little fine hairs. I thought, since the plant lives through the winter, perhaps the woolly or hairy covering might be to help to keep it warm," said Harry, with a wise look. "Who knows but that may be so?" answered the teacher. "Surely it is cold enough where it lives to need all the coverings it can get." This is often called the " Mayflower." Indeed that name was given it by the Pilgrims who settled, you remember, in 1620, on the cold, barren coast of Massachusetts. During the cold, hard winter while they w...
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