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In looking at the cherry blossom (Fig. 160), we 
should first notice the green cup which holds the rest 
of the flower. 
This cup is divided into five green leaves. 
During the babyhood of the flower, when it was 
quite too young to face the cold, windy world, these 
green leaves were folded together so as to shut away 
from all harm its more delicate parts. 
Above this green cup we see a circle made up of five 
white leaves. These pretty leaves are spread outward 
as if they were quite proud of themselves, and eager to 
attract attention. 
And that is just what they are try- 
ing to do; for the cherry blossom is 
not wise enough to know that here in 
the schoolroom there are no bee visi- 
tors to bring it yellow dust, and ‘to 
help it grow into a cherry. These 
FIG. 160 
\ leaves are the little handkerchiefs 
which the \\_ cherry tree, just like the apple tree we 
read about \* long ago, uses in signaling the bees. 
Within the circle of white leaves you see a quantity 
of what we named “pins with dust boxes.” You re- 
member that these dust boxes hold the powdery mate- 
rial which is as wonderful as Cinderella’s fairy godmother 
in its power to do strange and surprising things. 
And in the very center of the flower you find a 
as we called it, with a flat top which is not 
single “ pin,” 
a dust box. 
But you remember that/at the foot of this pin is 
another sort of box, a seedbox (Fig. 161). 
