At that Mary Frances dried her eyes.
“Oh, were you, Billy—will you?” She was delighted.
“Yes,” said Billy, “if you’ll stop weeping. The next lesson is a real one in Botany, or the study of flowers and plants; and since I’ve found these few buttercups, which I pressed in my collection of dried flowers, if you wish, I shall begin—
GARDEN LESSON No. 5
Names of Parts of Flowers
Not all flowers have every part. The buttercup (or better, the single geranium) is an excellent flower to study to show the various parts.
To learn the name of each part, our teacher told us—
The Story of Little Buttercup
Little Buttercup has on a yellow collar.
Her collar is called a cô-rŏl-lá.
Her corolla collar is made of five scallops; each scallop is called a pĕt´-al.