232 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [14:6— Sept., 1918 



The Poets have written much of the Sunflower. The following 



are a few of these tributes : 



"Miles and miles of golden green 

 Where the sunflowers blow 

 In a solid glow." — Robert Browning. 



"The sunflower, thinking 'twas for him foul shame 

 To nap by daylight, strove to excuse the blame; 

 It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, 

 But too great weight and largeness of his head." — Cowley. 



"With zealous step he climbs the upland lawn, 

 And bows in homage to the rising dawn; 

 Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, 

 And watches as it moves the oib of day. — Darwin. 



"Unloved the sunflower, shining fair, 

 Ray round with flowers her disk of red." — Tennyson. 



Two Different View Points 



Edith Clark Maynard 



Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



One warm morning in August, accompanied by our host's faith- 

 ful dog, I strolled down to the hotel garden. 



First potatoes, then corn we passed, and finally came to a field of 

 five thousand cabbages. Over the cabbages, in the bright sun- 

 shine, were fluttering many white "cabbage butterflies" seeking 

 the very best leaves upon which to lay their eggs. 



The depredations of the greedy green caterpillars were only too 

 evident. 



The whole scene recalled a conversation I had had with a teacher 

 a few weeks before. She was supposed to teach nature-study. In 

 speaking of her work she had said with enthusiasm, "I like to teach 

 the life history of a butterfly because it paragraphs so well in 

 English. Three stages in the life history, three complete para- 

 graphs. You see?" Had she been with us that morning I 

 wondered if any thought of English construction could have come 

 between her and the scene before us. 



