petals, but how unlike they are! This one, which is much larger than the others, is called the banner. Is it not a beautiful banner? In front of and on each side of the banner is a smaller petal. These petals are wings which protect the two united petals. These united petals look like the keel of a boat. This part of the corolla is named the keel because it looks like the keel of a boat. The corolla of the pea has a banner, two wings, and a keel. The calyx has five pointed sepals. How many stamens has this flower? Oh, so many. ten in all. It has ten stamens and one pistil shut up in the keel. These stamens are not like the stamens of the rose, the violet, or the lily. Nine of them are united, making a long tube which is split on one side. The pistil is in this tube. Do you see how well the stamens and the pistil are protected? I am glad that I can see so much to talk about in this beautiful sweet-pea. The sweet-pea has many cousins. Some of them are the garden pea, the bean, and the locust. Let us see how many we can find. Shall we draw the flower? Write all you can about the garden .pea, the flower of the bean, and the flower of the locust. 11. THE FLOWER MISSION. Two twin sisters whose names were Violet and May lived in a large city. By the middle of June every year they went into the country to see their Aunt Mabel. Aunt Mabel lived on a large farm about ten miles from the city. Here the They were little flower lovers, and picked so many that Aunt Mabel never knew what to do with them. One year when they went to the farm they had a plan for doing good. Their teacher had told them of the Flower Mission, and how much pleasure the flowers gave the little children and the grown-up people in the hospitals. Their mamma said that if they would send her a basketful of flowers twice a week, while they were in the country, she would take them to the children's hospital. The first basket they sent was full of daisies. They were picked early in the morning, put into a moss-lined basket, sprinkled, and covered with waxed paper. By noon every child in the hospital had a bunch of fresh daisies. Their mamma told them how happy the daisies had made a little lame girl who had never seen a daisy before. The girl's name was Fanny. The next basket that went to the city was full of roses. Aunt Mabel took this basket. She felt so sorry for lame Fanny when she saw her that she asked the little girl to go home with her. The daisies and the country air proved to be good doctors, for little Fanny grew better very fast. She liked daisies better than any other kind of flower. know why? Do you One day Violet and May sent so many daisies to the hospital that all the children could make daisy chains. The children made some of the daisies into faces. Queer-looking faces they were too. Some were thin, others were fat. Some looked like old women, some like young ladies, and others like girls or babies. We have had some of their pictures taken for you. How do you like them? Twice a week all summer the basket was sent. Sometimes it was full of fruit. Violet and May took the last basketful and saw the children in the hospital. Don't you think they had a good plan for doing good? -Adapted from OUR LITTLE ONES. Always coming with the spring; My stalk is green, and very tall, |