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‘Whenever you look at a flower, I want you _ to 
remember that its bright flower leaves will soon fade: 
and fall, and that its stamens will lose their pollen and 
wither away,*but that the pistil or pistils will remain, 
turning at last into the ripened fruit, —the fruit which is’ 
the end, the aim, the object, of the plant’s life. 
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SHOULD like to ask each of you children to tell 
me what flower you believe to be first to come in 
the spring. 
- Some of you have never stopped to think about this. 
But there are sure to be a few among you who will 
name one special flower as the earliest of the year. 
