“Right there,” explained Feather Flop, going toward the tomato plants and pointing with his wing: “right down there. About twenty, I guess there were, and I had some difficulty——” “Get out of that garden, will you, Feather Flop!” roared Billy, coming with a stick. “Say, Mary Frances, why don’t you chase that old good-for-nothing rooster off? If he doesn’t look out——” “Oh, Billy,” cried Mary Frances. “Oh, Billy, you ought—he was—he has eaten a lot of cutworms. I know he has! You don’t understand!” “I don’t understand! Well, I guess I don’t! Get out of here, you old busybody of a rooster!” said Billy. Mary Frances felt so sorry about the rooster she couldn’t have helped crying, and out came her handkerchief. “Oh, Billy,” she sobbed, “he’s so interested—in the—garden.” “I should say he is!” said Billy. “I should say so! But whatever can be the matter with _you_, gets me! For pity’s sake, dry up those tears. I was going to give you the next lesson.” 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~. The petal scallops of Little Buttercup’s collar corolla are held in place about her neck in a little green cup-shaped holder. This holder is called a ~cā’-lŷx~, or cup. The calyx cup has five pointed scallops. Each scallop is called a ~sĕp´-ăl~. Little Buttercup wears not only a beautiful yellow collar corolla made of shiny yellow petals, held in place by the green sepals of the calyx cup, but she has a lovely necklace of fringe close about her neck. Each thread of fringe is a stā´-men. Each stamen is made of a thread called a ~fĭl´-ă-mĕnt~, and on the end of each filament dangles a little bead, called an ~ăn´-thẽr~. Proud little Buttercup not only wears all of these beautiful things, but she uses powder! On each anther bead Little Buttercup carries some yellow powder. This powder is called ~pŏl´-len~. She must be very proud when she gets all dressed up in the lovely Spring days in her best finery—a shiny corolla collar, made of yellow petals, held in a calyx cup, made of green sepals, and a stamen fringe necklace, powdered with pollen!