. St. Nicholas [serial] . SEED-PODS BECOME LIKEFAIRY CHANDELIERS. vase. It is an interestingfact to note that after the seeds are expelledthe dry elastic styles become limp on a dewymorning, and that they close and unclosewith the sun like tiny umbrellas, until thewind and the rain destroys them. This proves that the iS~ seeds do not shootin wet weather. i-K** W. C. CRANE S-BILL, OR WILD GERANIUM, IN FLOWER. igo2.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 1037 PRETTY AND VARIED FORMS OF DEW. TREES ILLUMINATED BY FIREFLIES. Last winter we studied the delicate six-sidedpatterns of the snow
. St. Nicholas [serial] . SEED-PODS BECOME LIKEFAIRY CHANDELIERS. vase. It is an interestingfact to note that after the seeds are expelledthe dry elastic styles become limp on a dewymorning, and that they close and unclosewith the sun like tiny umbrellas, until thewind and the rain destroys them. This proves that the iS~ seeds do not shootin wet weather. i-K** W. C. CRANE S-BILL, OR WILD GERANIUM, IN FLOWER. igo2.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 1037 PRETTY AND VARIED FORMS OF DEW. TREES ILLUMINATED BY FIREFLIES. Last winter we studied the delicate six-sidedpatterns of the snow crystals and the lace-likeand fairy forms of the frost. Now we may ex-amine the freaks of dewy decoration, andfind an equally endless variety of flashing span-gles, glittering jewels, silvered surfaces, anddainty forms. Even to the unaided eye that seesthings carefully, rather than looks at them casu-ally, there is an indescribable beauty of thesesolid moisture decorations of frost and snow crys-tals of winter, and of the liquid dew of summer. But bring some of these forms under apocket-microscope or a large reading-glass instrong light, and you will discover that thebeauty is veritably of the Oh, my! kind. jewels of dew on strawberry-leaves. The pearly-edged strawberry-leaves in theforeground of the accompanying illustrationwere drawn from photographs sent us by
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