emory[ stories, an aid TO NATURE-STUDY TEACHER 97 



came to the lake where the water was soft and warm. She came 

 down and ahghted on the lake. The Red Children say that the 

 rays took root and when morning came, there lay a beautiftil 

 water-lily upon the lake. 



Plants used for food have not had much that is imaginative 

 woven about them. The story of Mondamin, the stor\' of the com 

 coming to the. Indians should always be told at har\'est time. 

 Facts are the interesting things in connection with vegetables. 

 Tomatoes were regarded as poisonous less than a hundred years 

 ago. They were planted as curiosities in the flower garden and were 

 known as love apples. This was also true of the egg plant. It 

 was believed to poison the wits so it was called the raging apple and 

 the mad apple. The potato was taken by Spanish explorers in 

 South America to Spain and planted as a curiosity. Sir Francis 

 Drake introduced it into England in 1585 as cattle food and later 

 it became the food of the rebellious Irish. Sir Walter Raleigh 

 became so depressed at the condition of the Irish in times of 

 famine that he personally interested the peasants in its cultivation. 

 In 1720 there occurred what is traditionally knoMvn as the "great 

 frost" or "black frost," which completely destroyed the potato 

 crop, penetrating the ground to a depth of nine inches. The 

 earnest, patient work of Luther Burbank, starting when a boy of 

 ten years is a lesson worthy of study by many an American boy. 



The suggestions given here include but a few of the many nature 

 stories and m>i;hs at our command. Others may be foimd in the 

 following books: "The Book of Nature M>-ths," Florence 

 Holbrook; "Legends of the Red Children," Pratt; "Flowers and 

 Flower Lore," Friend; "The Folk-Lore of Plants," T. F. Thiselton 

 Dyer; "Wigwam .Stories," Mar\' Catherine Judd; "Nature 

 M)rths of Many Lands," Farmer; "M\-ths and Legends of Flow- 

 ers," Skinner. 



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