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type of flower ; their variety is so great. A 
scientific botany book must be consulted to 
learn even a few of them, but it is a real 
pleasure to look at the flowers themselves. 
Notice a violet, a sweet - pea, a dead nettle, 
heather, dandelion, lily of the valley, foxglove, 
honeysuckle, and crocus, and some of the 
variations will become familiar to you ; but 
there are a few imperfect flowers which would 
remain a puzzle without the book as guide. 
Take, for instance, the wild arum (“lords-and- 
ladies ”) or the pretty white arum grown in 
greenhouses. The spike up the middle is the 
real flower, and contains stamens and pistils 
arranged in groups, while the green or white 
