The Whirligig
You can have some fun with the daffodil stalk, too, after taking off the flowers.
[Fig. 108] is a daffodil stalk; look at it closely, then look at [Fig. 109]. They are really the very same though they appear to be so different. One seems to have a blossom at the top, and you know that the other has not.
If you want to do the trick and make a stalk blossom, select a stalk like [Fig. 108], hold the stem closely between your open hands and roll it rapidly by first sliding your right hand forward while the left slides backward, then the left forward and the right hand back. This makes a whirligig of your stalk, and the flower will appear at the top as you see it in [Fig. 109].
Try making whirligigs of other kinds of stems; of grasses, twigs, and leaves.
PART V
SEED-VESSELS
CHAPTER XVIII
SEED-VESSEL PLAYTHINGS
When the flowers have gone then come the seed-vessels, equally as good for playthings but very different.
Fig.110 - Rose-haw apples for your doll's table.
Of course, you know the rose-haws, the little red and yellow and green apples that you find on the rose-bushes in the fall. They are the seed-vessels of the rose, and every rose which is allowed to remain on the bush until it fades and falls apart leaves a seed-vessel to take its place.
Fig.112 - The bronze-green Rose-haw.