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Title: Eyes and no eyes
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Buckley, Arabella B Sheila Thibodeau Lambrinos Collection - York University
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Publisher: London, New York : Cassell and Company, Ltd
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
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ounds off very gracefully up to the top. Then, as April comes, the brown scales fall fromthe leaf-buds, and the tree is covered with brightgreen downy leaves. They are each cut into sevenleaflets, which hang down from the tip of the leaf-stalk like a half-opened umbrella. Little by little, asthey grow stronger, they rise up into a broad leafwith seven fingers. It is while they are doing thisthat the flower-buds throw off their scales, the fourgreen leaves open out, and the flower spike beginsto hang out its snow-white flowers, streaked withpink and yellow (see p. 10). The flowers nearest to the branch open first andgrow strong. They are perfect flowers, with fivegreen sepals and five beautiful crimped petals, andhave both stamens and seed-box inside. These will^orm the chestnuts which ripen in the autumn. Theflowers nearer to the tip of the spike have onlystamens inside the petals. They wither away assoon as they have shed their pollen-dust. If you can get an old flower spike when the
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SALLOW WILLOW.1. Silver Tussy Palm bearing the Ovaries. 2. Golden Palm bearing Anthers. (See page 23.) TREES WITH OATKIN FLOWERS. 21 flowers are withered, and c at the seed-box of a floweracross, you will see that it has three divisions withtwo little seeds in each. But when you pick up theprickly fruit in the autumn, though it burst intothree parts, there are generally only two horse-chestnuts inside (see p. 10), with another very tinyOne. The two big seeds have starved out the otherfour little ones and grown big and strong. If thechestnuts are brown and shiny, they are ripe, andwill grow if you sow them. Though the horse-chestnut is very beautiful inthe summer, its leaves turn yellow very earlyand fall in August, and then you can see tlie budsalready formed for next year. All boys knowthat horse-chestnuts are bitter and not goodeating. The sweet chestnuts, which we roast, comefrom quite a different tree, and are not seeds,but fruits. Bring a branch of Ilorse-chestniit and examine th

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