196 FINDING ODD FLOWERS 



things that they rush out and pick everything in 

 bloom. 



Once Tommy knew a girl who thought wild 

 flowers only grew in the spring, and she could 

 scarcely believe it when he told her that the sum- 

 mer had flowers, and the autumn had others that 

 lasted until Jack Frost came, and that even the 

 winter had beautiful bright berries and leaves 

 which kept green. 



Tommy was disappointed not to find another 

 flower like the queer one in the woods, but after 

 we had hunted until we were sure none were there, 

 we went down where the meadow is wet and almost 

 swampy. 



" We'll see what the sun has opened here," 

 Tommy said. 



I was looking every minute where I should step 

 and trying to keep on the little hills of grass when 

 I called out, " I smell something sweet." 



" It's that Button Bush in front of you," 

 Tommy shouted. 



I saw then that near the water there was a 

 large shrub with ever so many round, white balls 

 on It that looked as though little pins with gold 

 heads had been stuck In them. But these really 

 were hundreds of little flowers growing In bunches 

 as round as balls. I wanted one, but they were 

 hard to reach, and Tommy shouted : 



" Don't pick them; they would fade before you 

 could get them home." 



