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Title: The children's city
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther
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Publisher: New York, Sturgis & Walton company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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tobad characters. Many plants take great care oftheir little ones, for instance. They dont go so faras to buy pretty cradles draped with silk and lacefor their babies; but they certainly do wrap themup in the softest, nicest downiest leaves you canimagine and provide sunshades and umbrellas toprotect them from too much light or too much rain.Some of the large-leaved palms — those that wesaw in the Palm House (fourteen feet long) tie theyoung ones in at the base of the leaf for the sake ofprotection; the young buds of some tropical treeshang downwards, so as to expose the least surfaceto the sun; and some plants place prickles and spines,sticky gum, or a globe of sap, around the tiny child. On the other hand, some plants, like the WildCarrot, for example, (you see I am constantly think-ing about my bad acquaintances) produces so manyseeds that the parent doesnt care if hundreds of itsoffspring die, because plenty are left to carry on 1 The Herculeum giganteunu 2 The Ficus parasitica.
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A PICNIC BY THE WATERFALL 157 the family name and traditions. Now what do youthink,— are plants educated or not? What / would like to know, said Jack, is,who taught the plants to do all these things. And so should I, said Doodle, * very, verymuch. My watch, however, says that we shall nothave very long to stay in the Museum unless wehurry away; and, besides, we want to go back byway of the Herbaceous Grounds. Retracing their steps along the same path bywhich they reached the Waterfall, the three thenencircled the Herbaceous Grounds. In this sys-tematic plantation the plants are grouped by naturalfamilies in botanical relationship. Through thispretty valley, moreover, runs a small stream,which here and there widens into pools; and alongthe stream, or in it, many aquatic plants are to beseen. Doodle thought it best to begin where the seriesof beds starts in the southern corner of the valley,at the foot-path entrance where the hardy ferns areplanted. In the neighbouring pond are cat-ta

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