Children and gardens . SEED-PODOF BELL-FLOWER. 42 CHILDREN AND GARDENS because if, while it is drying, it is wetted by any con-tinuous rain, the brown seeds stain the tender tissuethat you want to keep. The seed-pod is quite has two outer coats like whity-brown paper, and. SEED-POD OF HONESTY. generally three to five seeds, some on one side andsome on the other of another middle papery is this partition that is kept. It is of delicatetexture, half transparent, and has the silvery-satinlustre that makes it such a pretty thing set up in aroom in some handsome blue-and-white
Children and gardens . SEED-PODOF BELL-FLOWER. 42 CHILDREN AND GARDENS because if, while it is drying, it is wetted by any con-tinuous rain, the brown seeds stain the tender tissuethat you want to keep. The seed-pod is quite has two outer coats like whity-brown paper, and. SEED-POD OF HONESTY. generally three to five seeds, some on one side andsome on the other of another middle papery is this partition that is kept. It is of delicatetexture, half transparent, and has the silvery-satinlustre that makes it such a pretty thing set up in aroom in some handsome blue-and-white Chinese jar orJapanese bronze. I have drawn it as itlooks held up to the light. I know nobetter practice in careful handling foryoung fingers than the preparing of thepods, doing it so as to get off the twooutside paper covers and the seeds with-out injuring the middle. It is amusing to dress up a Snapdragonseed-pod, when it is brown and dry, as anold woman. If you look at it you willSNAPDRAGON POD gee how curiously like a face it is, with DRESSED AS AN OLD WOMAN. large eyes and open mouth. You mustbreak off the projecting spike so that it leaves a little
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