Then little Bee ran a few yards and stopped at the nearest Rose-bush. "Why, that's a Rose," said Harry.
"Tourse it is, silly boy, didn't I say 'Wo?' and isn't it a 'Wosy Posy?'"
And so they all played on, and their little faces brightened into smiles, and fretfulness was forgotten in a good game as it always is; and by tea-time they were all thoroughly tired, and ready to go indoors when mamma called them.
There's the game, now for the Puzzle. You will find below a quantity of syllables in squares. Those syllables, if sorted out correctly, will make a certain number of wild and garden flowers, briefly described below, and all you have to do is to pick them out and place them in their proper order.
Senior Division.
| tau | e | ach | clem | a | ber |
| mim | be | y | im | a | ris |
| eschs | ant | cen | u | ge | tis |
| i | val | ir | an | rhi | pol |
| zi | ra | cholt | ri | thus | num |
| nes | tum | an | a | lus | ry |
The following flowers can be made from the above syllables:--1. A small pink wild flower, bitter to taste, found in dry pastures--June to September. 2. Many flowers on one stem. 3. Its name is derived from a Latin word meaning mimic or ape. 4. A small but important order, including the poppy and many poisonous plants. 5. With open mouth behold this favourite flower. 6. Erect flowering-stems, found in damp hedgerows, moist woods, edges of streams--June to August. 7. Its name is derived from a word meaning sensitive to cold. 8. A beautiful purple or white flower, seen on the walls of many homes. 9. "A plant ever young." 10. Touch the stamens with the point of a pin, and they all spring forward and touch the pistil.
Junior Division.
| cel | o | cor | pim | e | beg |
| a | sue | an | di | nem | el |
| di | cam | op | dine | an | y |
| ag | sis | per | pan | o | cory |
| jas | ne | ri | thus | u | mo |
| nel | nia | tra | la | ny | mine |
The following flowers can be made from the above syllables:—1. A pretty yellow flower, found in damp fields, meadows, and brooks. 2. A white or yellow flower found on houses. 3. A pretty little yellow flower, on high flowering-stems, sweet in scent. 4. A "divine" flower. 5. Bell-shaped—blue, purple, or white. 6. Purple, red, and yellow, sometimes white. The fruit is a pod containing many seeds. 7. Sometimes eaten as salads, the leaves and stems being flavoured with oxalic acid. 8. Named from the resemblance of its seed to a small beetle. 9. A beautiful little crimson flower, covering the fields in summer. 10. A beautiful white spring flower, found in copses and hedgerows. 11. A beautiful pale blue flower, found especially on sand or chalk.