Plants and their children

by Frances Theodora Parsons

Why, it is a baby pea pod. Within it lie the tiny green seeds (Fig. [259]) which are only waiting for the fresh touch of life from a pollen grain to grow bigger and bigger till they become the full-grown seeds of the pea plant,—the peas that we find so good to eat when they are cooked for dinner.

Fig. 259

So, after all, the building plan of the pea blossom is nothing but the old-fashioned one which reads

1. Calyx.
2. Corolla.
3. Stamens.
4. Pistil.

Had I not told you to do so, I wonder if you would have been bright enough to pull apart the little pocket and discover the stamens and pistil.

What do you think about this?

THE CLOVER’S TRICK

Here you see the bees buzzing about the pretty pink clover heads,—the sweet-smelling clover that grows so thickly in the fields of early summer.