Flowers and Their Friends

How flowers and insects came to need each other, explained to children by a teacher who refused to talk down — “it would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic,” she begins, so look up every word you don't know.

Morning-Glory Stories

9 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Morning-Glory Stories (Flower honey has a special)

Flower honey has a special name; we often call it nectar, for a good reason which I mean to tell you another time.

Morning-Glory Stories (Dear I cannot give you honey)

Dear, I cannot give you honey.

Morning-Glory Stories (Morning-glory glowed)

The morning-glory glowed in the sunshine all day long, happy, no doubt, in the consciousness that the little seed-children had begun to…

Morning-Glory Stories (Why should the flowers care)

Why should the flowers care? Why should they spread bright corollas and arrange these cunning protections and draw up the sap for the sake…

Morning-Glory Stories (They were brought here)

They were brought here from the hot part of America, near the equator. Somebody saw them, no doubt, and of course fell in love with them…

Morning-Glory Stories (Quite another use In fact)

quite another use. In fact, jalap is used as a medicine. It grows very luxuriantly at Jalapa, or, as the Mexicans spell it, Xalapa, in…

Morning-Glory Stories: Convolvulus

Several members of the Convolvulus Family have the same medicinal properties as jalap, and one in particular, whose name is scammony, is…

Morning-Glory Stories: Convolvulaceæ

A few of the Convolvulaceæ manage to make woody stems and become shrubs instead of vines..

Morning-Glory Stories: Dodder

Then Dodder the Robber comes out. But instead of sending down a root and up a stem like other seeds, he just pushes out a little threadlike…

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