The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated BotanyEducational Publishing Company, 1890 - 220 pages |
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akenes Alternate leaves anthers Anthers open axil beautiful bell-shaped berry bloom blossom blue bracts branches bright bulb calyx CAT-TAIL catkins cell cleft close-sitting clusters color compound corolla corymb cotyledons CROWFOOT cymes downy erect FAMILY feet high fertile flowers filaments five petals five stamens flat flowers grow foot-stalks four stamens funnel-shaped garden green greenish hairy head heart-shaped Herbs HONEYSUCKLE irregular JOHN'S-WORT kind lance-shaped leaf leaflets leafy Leaves opposite Lily lobes look MAPLE Moonseed Narcissus narrow oblong one-celled one-seeded opposite leaves ovary ovate pale panicles perfect flowers perianth petal-like petals pinnate pistils plant pods Proserpina purple purplish racemes receptacle regular root Rose round SAXIFRAGE scape seeds sepals sessile shaped short shrubs side simple slender smooth sometimes spadix spikes spreading stalks stamens stem stigmas stipules style sweet thick toothed tree tube two-celled two-lipped umbel upper vines VIOLET white flowers whorled woody yellow
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Page 138 - IN May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes, I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods, Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook, To please the desert and the sluggish brook. The purple petals, fallen in the pool, Made the black water with their beauty gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array.
Page 138 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
Page 198 - And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays : Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten ; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And, groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers...
Page 26 - JACK in the pulpit Preaches to-day Under the green trees Just over the way. Squirrel and song-sparrow High on their perch Hear the sweet lily-bells Ringing to church. Come, hear what his reverence Rises to say, In his low, painted pulpit This calm Sabbath day. Fair is the canopy Over him seen, Penciled by Nature's hand, Black, brown and green. Green is his surplice, Green are his bands ; In his queer little pulpit The little priest stands.
Page 137 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 40 - THE VIOLET. DOWN in a green and shady bed, A modest violet grew, Its stalk was bent, it hung its head, As if to hide from view.
Page 106 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 163 - I would that thus, when I shall see The hour of death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.
Page 82 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Page 138 - Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being...