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.

Nothing but Leaves

4 pages in this part of Flowers and Their Friends.

Nothing but Leaves

AFTER all, that is what a rose is, - nothing but leaves; and what a violet is and a lily and a nasturtium and a honeysuckle and all the…

Nothing but Leaves: Lake

You could not have found Lake Michigan on it nor even the Atlantic Ocean nor the Rocky Mountains, and the reason you could not have found…

Nothing but Leaves: Leaf

So Mr. Flabby Leaf was a very good life starter.

Nothing but Leaves: Sometimes

Sometimes flowers forget and go back to the old ways of doing things; and if we are lucky enough to find such a flower, we can see just how…

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