ParT VI— FLOWERS 
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io BUM DING: PEAN, OF -THE- CHERRY 
BLOSSOM 
NE day your teacher brought to school a branch 
broken from the cherry tree. This she placed 
in water, standing the tumbler on the sunny window 
sill; and now its buds have burst into a glory of white 
blossoms. 
To-day I want you to study the flower of the cherry ; 
for if you know all about this flower, which is put 
together in a rather simple way, one that is easy to 
study, it will not be so difficult for you to understand 
other, less simple flowers. 
You may wonder why I do not wait till the cherry 
tree outside is in blossom; but if we waited till May, 
other flowers, which are not built on quite so simple a 
plan, would have come and gone, and you would not 
have been able to understand them so well as if you 
had first studied the simple make-up of the cherry 
blossom. 
Last fall we learned a little about this flower, but we 
had only its picture to help us in our work: so I think 
it well to begin all over again. 
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