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... round the trunk of one of them , belong to the same family as the peas and beans of our garden ; though they are of a very different genus and species , and it requires a great deal of thought and study to see exactly where they are ...
... round the trunk of one of them , belong to the same family as the peas and beans of our garden ; though they are of a very different genus and species , and it requires a great deal of thought and study to see exactly where they are ...
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... round leaves on it . I think if I had left it alone I should have had a bean - stalk . HENRY . - Why , Alice , how foolish you . were ! Of course you would ; that is just the way Jack's bean - stalk grew when he upset his hat full of ...
... round leaves on it . I think if I had left it alone I should have had a bean - stalk . HENRY . - Why , Alice , how foolish you . were ! Of course you would ; that is just the way Jack's bean - stalk grew when he upset his hat full of ...
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... round and round . All grasses and palms are like this snowdrop , and like all lilies having hollow stems , however big they are , and leaves with- out network , but with straight veins . So you see that in some points you can even now ...
... round and round . All grasses and palms are like this snowdrop , and like all lilies having hollow stems , however big they are , and leaves with- out network , but with straight veins . So you see that in some points you can even now ...
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... round and easy to pull away from the rest of the parts . See , in the snowdrop we can easily pull off the little white parts of the flower , which are the same really as the yellow part of the gorse . Both are called the corolla , or ...
... round and easy to pull away from the rest of the parts . See , in the snowdrop we can easily pull off the little white parts of the flower , which are the same really as the yellow part of the gorse . Both are called the corolla , or ...
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... look at its parts . Begin from the outside . There is first the calyx , a ring of greenish leaves or sepals ; then the shining yellow corolla , quite regularly set Parts of a Flower . 33 round , each little 32 Talks about Plants .
... look at its parts . Begin from the outside . There is first the calyx , a ring of greenish leaves or sepals ; then the shining yellow corolla , quite regularly set Parts of a Flower . 33 round , each little 32 Talks about Plants .
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Adventures Alice animals Author BARBARA HUTTON beautiful belongs berries blue Book botanists botany bright British buttercup called Calluna calyx catkins cells Cheaper Edition cloth elegant coloured corolla covered Crown 8vo curious daisy delicate fairies family of plants fancy Fcap fern flowers foxglove fronds fruit fungus G. A. HENTY garden gilt edges girl gorse Granny GRANNY.-Yes green GRIFFITH AND FARRAN grow hairs HARRISON WEIR Harry heath HENRY holly Illustrated by HARRISON Illustrated by JOHN insects LADY leaf leaves little flowers live look lovely mistletoe nice petals pistil poppies Post 8vo pretty price 6d primrose PUBLISHED BY GRIFFITH recollect roots rose round Royal 16mo samphire SEA HOLLY Second Edition seeds Shillings and Sixpence snowdrop sort stalk stamens stem Stories sundew Tale talk tell things Thousand tiny told tree violet W. H. G. KINGSTON whilst wild willow wood young
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