"Why do you think so?" asked the Chief Gardener.
"Well, I remember that the flowers are something alike, and then they both have pods."
A MEMBER OF THE PULSE FAMILY
"And you are right, Davy. Both the flowers are what is called butterfly-shaped, and pods of that kind are called legumes. Whenever you see a flower of that shape, or a pod of that kind, no matter how small or how large, or whether they grow on a plant or a tree or a shrub, you will know you have found one of the Pulse family and a relative of the pea. Your scarlet runners are about second cousins, I should think, and I have something to tell about them, too, but it is too late this evening."
IV
BEANS AND MORNING-GLORIES TWINE TO THE RIGHT
"My morning-glories are climbing! My morning-glories are climbing up the strings!"
"And so are my scarlet runners! Two of them have gone twice around already, and one of them three times! But oh, Papa, something has broken one of my stalks of corn, right off close to the ground!"
It was two days after the strings had been put up, and Prue and Davy had tried very hard not to look at their garden during all that time. Then they just had to look, and found that the beans and morning-glories were really starting up the strings. But what could have happened to Davy's corn!