ACCORDING TO SEASON 



" Union is 

 strength" 



A railway 

 journey 



passing insects and thus securing an exchange of 

 pollen among the perfect disk-flowers. 



In the common daisy the arrangement is differ- 

 ent. Here the white rays are even more useful 

 than ornamental, as they are the female flowers of 

 the head, eventually producing seed; while the 

 yellow disk-flowers of the centre yield the pollen. 

 The dandelion is without any tubular blossoms. 

 Its florets are botanically described as " strap- 

 shaped," resembling the ray-flowers of the daisy 

 and black-eyed Susan. In the common thistle, 

 again, we find only tubular flowers. If the minute 

 blossoms of the composite family were not thus 

 grouped, probably they would be too inconspicu- 

 ous to attract attention and often might fail to 

 secure the pollen necessary to their fertilization. 

 To quote Mr. Grant Allen, " Union is strength for 

 the daisy as for the State." 



More people would learn to take an interest in 

 plants if they suspected the pleasurable excite- 

 ment which awaits the flower-lover upon the 

 most commonplace railway journey. A peculiar 

 thrill of expectancy is caused by the rapidly 

 changing environment which reveals, in swift 

 succession, flowers of the most varied proclivi- 

 ties. If we leave New York on a certain road, at 

 intervals for an hour or more the salt marshes 

 spread their deep-hued treasures before us. Then 



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