Children and gardens . s. The pair of seed-leaves want toopen flat, but sometimes they are held clipped togetherby the husk. The seedling will be very thankful ifyou will gently release them by lifting off the best way to do it is with a little flat feather, push-ing the feather between the two leaves and working itupwards, very gently, or the seedling may be pulledout of the ground. The husk often sticks on the endof one seed-leaf, though it is more often thrown offaltogether. The seedlings with the little ace-of-spades shaped 40 CHILDREN AND GARDENS leaves are Incarvillea Delavayi^
Children and gardens . s. The pair of seed-leaves want toopen flat, but sometimes they are held clipped togetherby the husk. The seedling will be very thankful ifyou will gently release them by lifting off the best way to do it is with a little flat feather, push-ing the feather between the two leaves and working itupwards, very gently, or the seedling may be pulledout of the ground. The husk often sticks on the endof one seed-leaf, though it is more often thrown offaltogether. The seedlings with the little ace-of-spades shaped 40 CHILDREN AND GARDENS leaves are Incarvillea Delavayi^ a handsome perennialplant. When the husks hold on to this they do it ina very clever way and stick rather tight. The coatingof the seed has a broad back on one side and a pointedtongue on the other, so that it rides astride of the leaf-tip with a rather firm hold. In your own gardens it is best, when the flowersare running to seed, to cut them off directly the floweris over. You see you want all the flowers you can get. INCARVILLEA SEEDLINGS. to keep your garden bright, but the plant wants tomake its seed as soon as possible. When seed-podsare forming the plant tries to give all its strength tothe seed-pods, but it is very patient, and if you go oncutting off the seed-pods it will make more flowers, inthe hope that next time you will not see or will by watching carefully and cutting off every pod, itis quite wonderful how you can make a plant go onflowering. Most likely you will find plants going to seed some-where in the home garden. Towards the end of thesummer you should look out for these to save the seed, SEEDS 41 and then you will see the curious variety of the seed-pods, and the ways the pods have of protecting theseeds till they are ripe, and then sowing them them-selves ; and you will see what odd things some of thepods are. Look at the picture of the pretty Love-in-a-Mist The plant has two English names, Love-in-a-Mist and Devil-in-a-Bush. I always think th
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