. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Cultivated-Plant Study 599 THE DAFFODILS AND THEIR RELATIVES Teacher's Story "Daffydown Dilly came up in the cold from the brown mold. Although the March breezes blew keen in her face. Although the while snow lay on many a ; Thus, it is that Miss Warner's stanzas tell us the special reason we so love the daffodils. They bring the sunshine color to the sodden earth, when the sun is chary of his favors in our northern latitude; and the sight of the daffodils floods the s
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Cultivated-Plant Study 599 THE DAFFODILS AND THEIR RELATIVES Teacher's Story "Daffydown Dilly came up in the cold from the brown mold. Although the March breezes blew keen in her face. Although the while snow lay on many a ; Thus, it is that Miss Warner's stanzas tell us the special reason we so love the daffodils. They bring the sunshine color to the sodden earth, when the sun is chary of his favors in our northern latitude; and the sight of the daffodils floods the spirit with a sense of sunlight. The daft'odils and their rela- tives, the jonquils and narcissus, are interesting when we stop to read their story in their form. The six segments of the perianth, or, as we would say, the three bright-colored sepals and the three inner petals of the flower, are different in shape; but they all look like petals and stand out in star-shape around the flaring end of the flower tube, which, because of its shape, is called the corona, or crown; however, it looks more like a stiff little petti- coat extending out in the middle of the flower than it does like a crown. The crown is simply the widened end of the tube of the flower, as maybe seen by opening a flower lengthwise; the six seem- ing petals will peel off the tube, showing that they are fastened to the outside of it. When we look down into the crown of one of these flowers, we see the long style with its three-lobed stigma pushing out beyond the anthers, which are pressed close about it at the throat of the tube; between each two anthers may be seen a little deep passage, through which the tongues of the moth or butterfly can be thrust to reach the nectar. In a tube, slit open, we can see the nectar at the very bottom of it, and it is sweet to the taste and has a decided flavor. In this open tube we may see that the filaments of the stamens are grown fast to the sides of the tube for much of th
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