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    A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls
    A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls
    A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls
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    A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls

    By Albert Bigelow Paine

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    WHEN Dr. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, established the Children's Room in that great museum, he took for his motto, "Knowledge begins in wonder," and he put into this room a selection of specimens especially intended to excite interest in the young mind. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJH
    Release dateMar 25, 2019
    ISBN9788834128800
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      A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls - Albert Bigelow Paine

      A Little Garden Calendar for Boys and Girls

      Albert Bigelow Paine

      .

      A Word to Teachers and Parents

      When Dr. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, established the Children's Room in that great museum, he took for his motto, Knowledge begins in wonder, and he put into this room a selection of specimens especially intended to excite interest in the young mind. The biggest bird and the littlest were placed side by side; curious eggs, nests, and insects—not many in number, but temptingly displayed—were ranged about to attract attention and to awake the desire to know more. It was the same Dr. Langley who had once declared that his chief interests in life were children and fairy stories, and it is in the little Washington room that we seem to find the thought embodied, for the children are there, and the fairy stories of nature are suggested on every hand.

      It is with Dr. Langley's motto in mind that the Little Garden Calendar is offered to[vi] parents and teachers, and to children themselves who are old enough to read. The author has tried to tell in simple language a few of the wonders of plant life, and to set down certain easy methods of observation, including planting, tending, and gathering the harvests, from month to month, throughout the year. Along with this it has been his aim to call attention to the more curious characteristics of certain plants—the really human instincts and habits of some, the family relations of others, the dependence of many upon mankind, animals, and insects, and the struggle for existence of all. Simple botany plays a part in the little narrative, which forms a continuous story from chapter to chapter, interwoven with a number of briefer stories—traditions, fairy tales, and the like, all relating to plant life and origin. These are presented by way of entertainment—to illuminate fact with fancy—to follow, as it were, the path of knowledge through the garden of imagination.

      The illustrations in this book are from excellent[vii] photographs—especially made for the various chapters—that the student of plant life may compare and identify with some degree of assurance as to varieties and particular specimens, especially in the matter of plant organisms. The volume is divided according to the calendar, for the reason that in the plant world there is interest for every month in the year if only someone is by to point the way, and it is for this purpose that the little story of Prue and Davy and their garden is offered to instructors in the schoolroom and at home, and to the young people themselves, with the greetings and good wishes of

      The Author.

      [viii]

      [ix]

      CONTENTS

      PAGE

      January, 13

      I You may begin your garden right away

      II Your garden may not look as I have it here

      III Many seeds are given wings

      IV I think seeds know the months

      February, 43

      I Little plants won't stand much handling

      II Hey for the merry little sweet pease

      III Even clover belongs to the pulse family

      IV Beans and morning-glories twine to the right

      V The honeysuckle twines always to the left

      March, 73

      I Still it was really a radish

      II The sun swings like a great pendulum

      III Long before there were any railroads and cities

      IV Did you ever see the little man in the pansy?

      [x] April, 103

      I The yellow dust is a food for the seed

      II The coming of the corn

      III Cross by name and cross by nature

      IV A peppery family

      V For in that dish was Davy's corn

      May, 131

      I Sweet pease have to be put down pretty deep

      II Different families of ants have different droves of

      cows

      III There are many ways of producing species

      June, 159

      I Then they went down into the strawberry patch

      II How the rose became queen

      III The sun is the greatest of all

      July, 187

      I A plant is divided into three principal parts

      II There are exogens and endogens

      III I don't see what weeds are for, anyway

      [xi] August, 211

      I There are just two kinds of leaves

      II Sometimes I think plants can see and hear

      III There are plants which do not bloom

      IV The princess by the sea

      September, 241

      I A flower really has clothes

      II A flower has many servants

      III A flower may really reason

      IV Some flowers live off other flowers and plants

      V The prince and the thread of gold

      October, 267

      I Seeds are made to be planted

      II There are bitter nuts and sweet ones

      III There are many things called fruits

      November, 291

      I There are annuals, biennials, and perennials

      II Plants know how to spread

      III All thanks for the plants

      [xii] December, 313

      I New gardens in the windows

      II To the garden of sleep

      III In the gardens of Christmas

      IV Some verses, and then good-by

      [xiii]

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      PAGE

      Frontispiece

      Davy's window—Prue's window 19

      The beans at the end of two weeks 23

      The morning-glories two weeks old 27

      The pot of radishes 35

      The pease two weeks old 37

      The corn at the end of two weeks 47

      The pease run up straight ladders 53

      A member of the pulse family 59

      The morning-glory twines to the right 65

      The nasturtiums began to hide the little pot 75

      The very small lettuce leaves 81

      Davy's pot of radishes 93

      Davy's corn sent out a plume at the top 97

      "The morning-glories had bloomed and already had seed

      pods" 113

      [xiv] Cabbage was the fat fellow's name 115

      They called it nasturtium 121

      Alyssum—the sweetest of the Cross family 123

      "Don't you think the blackberry looks a little like a wild

      rose?" 135

      And the apple blossom, too? 139

      Budding 149

      The Chief Gardener's strawberries 161

      Big, big berries that looked so good 165

      The rose stamens and pistil which produce the seed 175

      "Gardeners often take a rose of one kind and shake it

      gently over a rose of another kind" 178

      "Sometimes the gardener takes up the pollen on a soft

      brush and lays it gently on the stigma of another

      rose" 179

      The pistil and stamens of the lily 192

      A pistil and calyx and a complete flower 193

      A group of endogens—the lily, hyacinth, and daffodil 195

      Some simple leaves 217

      Pine-needles are leaves 218

      [xv] There is a lot of kinds and shapes 221

      Beware of the vine with the three-part leaf 253

      The dandelion is bound to spread its seed 256

      So it blooms below the lawn-mower's cutting-wheel 257

      They cling to everything that passes 269

      Three members of the acorn family 277

      The apple is a calyx. The pistil is the core inside of it 283

      A raspberry is a cluster of pistils without the core 285

      The seed and sets of the onion 295

      A black raspberry vine preparing to spread 299

      What are stuck-ins?—oh, slips! 301

      The wool that grows on the sheep's back is there because

      the sheep feeds on the green grass in summer 307

      A Japanese fern-ball 316

      The kind of a tree that nobody but Santa Claus ever raises 323

      [xvi]

      [11]

      JANUARY

      [12]

      [13]

      A LITTLE GARDEN CALENDAR

      JANUARY

      I

      YOU MAY BEGIN YOUR GARDEN RIGHT AWAY

      THIS is the story of a year, and begins on New Year's day. It is the story of a garden—a little garden—and of a little boy and girl who owned the garden, and of the Chief Gardener, who helped them.

      And the name of the little boy was David, after his grandfather. So they called him Davy, because when grandfather was a little boy, he had been called Davy, and this little boy wanted to be just as his grandfather had been—just the same kind of a little boy, with the same name and all.

      And the name of the little girl was Prudence,[14] and she was called Prue. For when her mother was a little girl, she had been called Prue, and the Chief Gardener still called her that, sometimes, when he did not call her just Mamma. And the little girl was five years old, and the little boy was 'most seven—going-on seven the little boy always said, when you asked him.

      The garden was in a window, at first—in two windows, side by side—called a double window. It had to be in a window, because outside it was very cold, and the snow was white and deep on the beds where the Chief Gardener had flowers and vegetables in summer-time.

      Prue and Davy were looking out on this white, snow-covered garden on New Year's afternoon. Christmas was over, and spring seemed far away. And there had been so much snow that they were tired of their sleds.

      I wish it would be warm again, said Davy, so there would be strawberries and nice things to eat in the garden; don't you, Prue?

      And nice green grass, and dandelions and[15] pinks and morning-glories, said Prue, who loved flowers.

      Then the little girl went over to where the Chief Gardener was reading. She leaned over his knee and rocked it back and forth.

      Will it ever be warm again? she asked. Will we ever have another garden?

      The Chief Gardener turned another page of his paper. Prue rocked his knee harder.

      I want it to be warm, she said. I want it to be so we can plant flowers.

      And things, put in Davy, nice things, to eat; pease and berries and radishes.

      Oh, Davy, you always want things to eat! said the little girl. We've just had our New Year's dinner!

      But I'd be hungry again before the things grew, wouldn't I? And you like strawberries, too, and short-cake.

      The Chief Gardener laid down his paper.

      What's all this about strawberry short-cake and morning-glories? he asked.

      [16]

      We want it to be warm, said Prue, so we can have a garden, with pinks and pansies—

      And pease— began Davy.

      And a short-cake tree, put in the Chief Gardener, with nice short-cakes covered with whipped cream, hanging on all the branches. That would suit you, wouldn't it, Davy boy?

      The very thought of a tree like that made Davy silent with joy; but Prue still rocked the knee and talked.

      When will it be warm? When can we have a garden? she kept asking.

      It is warm, now, in this room, said the Chief Gardener, and you may begin your garden right away, if you like.

      The children looked at him, not knowing just what he meant.

      In the window, he went on. There are two, side by side. They are a part of the garden, you know, for we always see the garden through them, in summer. You remember, we said last year they were like frames for it. Now,[17] suppose we really put a little piece of garden in the windows.

      Prue was already dancing.

      Oh, yes! And I'll have pansies, and roses, and hollyhocks, and pinks, and morning-glories, and—

      And I'll have peaches, and apples, and strawberries, and pease—

      And a field of corn and wheat, laughed the Chief Gardener, and a grove of cocoanut trees! What magic windows we must have to hold all the things you have named. They will be like the pack of Santa Claus—never too full to hold more.

      But can't we have all the things we like? asked Davy, anxiously.

      Not quite all, I'm afraid. The hollyhocks and roses that Prue wants do not bloom the first year from seed. It would hardly pay to plant them in a window-garden, and as for peach and apple trees, I am afraid you would get very tired waiting for them to bear. It takes at least[18] five years for apple-trees to give us fruit, often much longer. Peach-trees bear about the third year. I think we would better try a few things that bloom and bear a little more quickly.

      II

      YOUR GARDEN MAY NOT LOOK AS I HAVE IT HERE

      The Chief Gardener took his pencil and a piece of paper, and drew a little plan. He was not much of an artist, and sometimes when he drew things he had to write their names below, so that Prue and Davy could tell which was the rabbit and which was the donkey, and so they wouldn't think the kitten was a lion. But a window was not so hard, and then he could put names under the plants, too. On the next page is the picture that the Chief Gardener drew.

      While he was making the picture, the children had been asking questions.

      Which is my side? Oh, what's that in the center—that tall plant? What are those vines?[19] What will we have in those littlest pots? Oh, I know what those are! Those are morning-glories! Oh, goody!

      Davy's and

      Prue's Window

      DAVY'S WINDOWPRUE'S WINDOW

      The last was from Prue, when she saw the artist putting the

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