To Make a Wild Rose
Materials required:
Pink, green, yellow tissue paper; white tracing paper; very fine wire; heavy wire for stem; yellow beads; small piece beeswax; pair small pincers; scissors; glue.
1. To make the corolla,—
(a) Lay a piece of pink tissue paper over the pattern of the corolla shown in the picture on the next page.
(b) Cut out; and curl the tips of the petals, by drawing them through between the thumb and blade of the scissors, just as your mother does ostrich feathers.
2. Trace, through a piece of tracing paper, the calyx, and foliage, as shown in the picture. Cut out, and use for patterns in cutting green tissue paper calyx and leaves.
3. To make the stamens,—
(a) Cut three pieces of fine wire, two and a half inches long, for the filaments. (See picture of stamens.)
(b) Fasten a small yellow bead anther on each end of the wire filaments, by bending the end of the wire over the bead with pincers. Fold the filament wires in half.
4. To make the pistil and stem,—
(a) Cut a piece of heavy wire six inches long—to form the stem.
(b) On one end, fasten a large yellow bead to form the stigma. Cut a piece of fine wire eight inches long. One inch below the stigma bead, hold the folded filament wires in a little bundle around the stem wire, and wind with the fine eight inch wire—to form the ovary. The heavy wire between the stigma and the ovary represents the style.
5. Cut a piece of beeswax a little less than a half-inch square. Mould it with the fingers under hot water until you have a soft ball.
6. Slip the pink corolla up the wire stem until over the wound wire. Spread the stamens out to prevent the corolla from slipping off.
7. Fit the beeswax over the wound wire to form the calyx cup; and pack a tiny bit of yellow tissue paper into the opening of the corolla under the stamens.
8. Wind the calyx cup with the green tissue paper calyx which you cut by the pattern, and fasten the end with a tip of glue.
How to Make a Wild Rose
9. Run a fine wire in and out through the stems of the foliage.
10. Cut a piece of green tissue paper eleven inches long and one inch wide. Commencing at the green calyx cup, wind the stem of the rose with this green strip of paper. Half way down, insert the petiole of the foliage, or leaves, under the strip, and continue winding to the end of the stem. Fasten the end by winding with fine wire.
There! you have the flower, and you know the names of the parts as well as Billy and Mary Frances know them.
[CHAPTER LXII]
The Mary Frances Garden Cut-Outs
EVERY boy or girl who will carefully make up the Mary Frances Garden Cut-Outs, and will study the lists of flowers printed on the reverse side of each garden, will very soon become familiar with the name, season of bloom, and appearance of the best-known perennials. Notice the artistic effect of “massing,” or grouping the same kind of plants close together.
In order to recognize the flowers mentioned in the lists, turn to [Chapters VII], [VIII], [IX], and [X], to read descriptions.
Directions for Making
THE MARY FRANCES GARDEN CUT-OUTS
1. Turn to the picture of [Mary Frances’ Play House] before the Children Planted the Gardens.
Cut along the red lines A, B, C, on the edge of the picture; and D in center of grass plot.
2. Turn to Mary Frances’ Garden Cut-Out [No. 1—Early Spring Hardy Garden].
Detach or cut out the page.
Cut along the edges of each colored portion.
3. Insert the little flaps A, B, C, D, of the cut-out portions into the openings A, B, C, D.
4. Follow the same directions in
- [Garden No. 2]—Early Summer Hardy Garden.
- [Garden No. 3]—Mid-Summer Hardy Garden.
- [Garden No. 4]—Late Summer or Early Fall Hardy Garden.
You will be delighted with the fairy-like way in which you have changed the landscape in front of the picture of Mary Frances’ Play House; but the pictures give only a slight idea of the beauty of the real gardens which Billy and Mary Frances made. In order to see how beautiful the flowers are, you will have to plant your own real gardens.
May they give you as much pleasure as they did Billy and Mary Frances.
[CHAPTER LXIII]
Little Gardeners’ Calendar
THE following plan was given to Mary Frances and Eleanor by the boys.
They called it—
