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.

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The Geranium Family

THE Geranium People are rather unsettled as to their relatives-or, rather, we are somewhat confused on the subject. Probably the geraniums know all about it, but they will not tell the botanists, so the botanists have to do the best they can by themselves.

Some say the tropæolum belongs to the Geranium Family, and it certainly does bear quite a strong family resemblance to the geraniums. They also say the Impatiens Family is a branch of the geraniums and the pelar-

all about it, but they will not tell the botanists, so
all about it, but they will not tell the botanists, so

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