Children and gardens . the Hen and Chickens Daisy, that has awhole circle of little Daisy-flowers on stalks growing outof the edge of the main Daisy, and is certainly anamusing little thing to see now and then ; and someof the Primroses that grow witha leafy calyx, like the one I havedrawn for you that was found ina wood by some children neigh-bours of mine. But this leafything is not half so pretty as acommon Primrose. If it was theother way about, and Primroses in generalhad these leafy calyxes, and then one dayone found among them a true Primrose,what a beautiful thing we should think it!Fr
Children and gardens . the Hen and Chickens Daisy, that has awhole circle of little Daisy-flowers on stalks growing outof the edge of the main Daisy, and is certainly anamusing little thing to see now and then ; and someof the Primroses that grow witha leafy calyx, like the one I havedrawn for you that was found ina wood by some children neigh-bours of mine. But this leafything is not half so pretty as acommon Primrose. If it was theother way about, and Primroses in generalhad these leafy calyxes, and then one dayone found among them a true Primrose,what a beautiful thing we should think it!Freakish forms also occur among at these shocking pear of the lovely shape of the peardebased into these ridiculous blobby forms, PRIMROSE WITH ^ LEAFY CALYX, with wrctchcd little leaves coming out ofthem. It is curious and interesting to see, just nowand then, but one is so sorry for a poor fruit that,instead of showing its own beautiful lines takes theseuseless and ugly freakish SMELLS AND SHAPES 57 But there are many curious things that are naturalto plants and are not ugly ; such as the little completeplants that come upon the fronds of one of the green-
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