ILLUSTRATIONS
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| [Frontispiece] | |
| Davy's window—Prue's window | [19] |
| The beans at the end of two weeks | [23] |
| The morning-glories two weeks old | [27] |
| The pot of radishes | [35] |
| The pease two weeks old | [37] |
| The corn at the end of two weeks | [47] |
| The pease run up straight ladders | [53] |
| A member of the pulse family | [59] |
| The morning-glory twines to the right | [65] |
| The nasturtiums began to hide the little pot | [75] |
| The very small lettuce leaves | [81] |
| Davy's pot of radishes | [93] |
| "Davy's corn sent out a plume at the top" | [97] |
| "The morning-glories had bloomed and already had seed | |
| pods" | [113] |
| "Cabbage" was the fat fellow's name | [115] |
| "They called it nasturtium" | [121] |
| Alyssum—the sweetest of the "Cross" family | [123] |
| "Don't you think the blackberry looks a little like a wild | |
| rose?" | [135] |
| "And the apple blossom, too?" | [139] |
| Budding | [149] |
| The Chief Gardener's strawberries | [161] |
| Big, big berries that looked so good | [165] |
| The rose stamens and pistil which produce the seed | [175] |
| "Gardeners often take a rose of one kind and shake it | |
| gently over a rose of another kind" | [178] |
| "Sometimes the gardener takes up the pollen on a soft | |
| brush and lays it gently on the stigma of another | |
| rose" | [179] |
| The pistil and stamens of the lily | [192] |
| A pistil and calyx and a complete flower | [193] |
| A group of endogens—the lily, hyacinth, and daffodil | [195] |
| Some simple leaves | [217] |
| Pine-needles are leaves | [218] |
| There is a lot of kinds and shapes | [221] |
| "Beware of the vine with the three-part leaf" | [253] |
| The dandelion is bound to spread its seed | [256] |
| "So it blooms below the lawn-mower's cutting-wheel" | [257] |
| "They cling to everything that passes" | [269] |
| Three members of the acorn family | [277] |
| The apple is a calyx. The pistil is the core inside of it | [283] |
| A raspberry is a cluster of pistils without the core | [285] |
| The seed and sets of the onion | [295] |
| A black raspberry vine preparing to spread | [299] |
| "What are stuck-ins?—oh, slips!" | [301] |
| The wool that grows on the sheep's back is there because | |
| the sheep feeds on the green grass in summer | [307] |
| A Japanese fern-ball | [316] |
| The kind of a tree that nobody but Santa Claus ever raises | [323] |
JANUARY
A LITTLE GARDEN CALENDAR