. St. Nicholas [serial] . washesit. Dont you think that is clever of her? Your interested reader, Alice Cone. LEAVES UNITE AROUND THE STEM. Deadwood, S. St. Nicholas: While walking on the hills Isaw a bush with a few bright-red berries on it. Oncloser examination of the bush I found that the leavesat the branch summits were peculiarly formed. Itseemed as though two leaves, like the lower ones butwider at the base, had grown together base to base,forming a cup. From the center of each cup a stemgrew bearing a cluster of berries. They are hardlymatured yet, but in most of the clusters all
. St. Nicholas [serial] . washesit. Dont you think that is clever of her? Your interested reader, Alice Cone. LEAVES UNITE AROUND THE STEM. Deadwood, S. St. Nicholas: While walking on the hills Isaw a bush with a few bright-red berries on it. Oncloser examination of the bush I found that the leavesat the branch summits were peculiarly formed. Itseemed as though two leaves, like the lower ones butwider at the base, had grown together base to base,forming a cup. From the center of each cup a stemgrew bearing a cluster of berries. They are hardlymatured yet, but in most of the clusters all but one ortwo berries were shriveled up. Whether some insecthas destroyed them or not I do not know. Hopingothers will be interested as well as myself, I am,Your devoted reader, Lydia E. Bucknell. This is the trumpet-honeysuckle (Louicerasempervifens), and is an excellent example ofleaves uniting around the stem. In this theupper leaves unite. Examine the common boneset of meadows NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. IO39. 9/A TRUMPET-HONEYSUCKLE. and roadsides in lowlands, and note a similarityand yet a decided difference. What is thatdifference? the musical and ringing rocks. Pottstown, St. Nicholas: Ringing Rocks Park is awild and beautiful place about three miles north of Potts-town. The Ringing Rocks, a great natural curiosity,are a great mass of weather-beaten gray rocks, heapedtogether in wild confusion, and covering two acres ofground. Scientists are not wholly agreed as to theirorigin, but they state that it is certain they are relatedto some vast volcanic disturbances which agitated theearth hundreds of thousandsof years ago. The rockswhich give forth the bestand clearest sound are foundnear the middle of the greatmass, and when struck witha hammer or any other me-tallic substance give a dis-tinct musical note. All thenotes of several musical oc-taves may be produced fromthese stones. There is agroup of selected stones be-hind the pavilion so ar-ranged that th
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