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The Green Kingdom
Childcraft
THE HOW AND WHY LIBRARY
VOLUME 6
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The Green Kingdom
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The Florist Shop," by Rachel Field From Taxis and Toadstoolsby
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Volume 6
The Green Kingdom
Contents
Seasons of Life 5
The life ol plants in spring, summer, fall, and winter
Plant Ways 21
Plants are living things with their own ways ol life
Nature's Neighbors 49
Plants live together in communities, just as people do
Strange and Surprising Plants 87
Man\ odd creatures belong to the green kingdom
Weeds and Wild Flowers Ill
Some weeds are pretty, some are useful, and some are dangerous
How Does Your Garden Grow? 137
No matter where you live, you can have some kind of garden
Famous Gardens 161
Some of the world s most famous and beautiful gardens
Meet the Trees 171
A game that shows you how to tell one kind of tree from another
Plants of Long Ago 193
The first plants, and others that lived in ages long past
What Plants Do for Us — 205
Plants give us fresh air, food, useful things and pleasure
People and Plants 223
The many different jobs done by people who work with plants
True Tales and Tall Tales 239
Legends, folk tales, and true stories of plants
Saving the Plants 251
What we are doing to help plants fight the dangers they face
Look for a Lovely Thing 265
The beauty of the green kingdom is always around us
Books to Read 272
New Words 274
Illustration Acknowledgments 27S
Index 280
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Seasons of Life
Springtime is a green time
When seedlings start their growing.
Summertime's a rainbow time
When many blooms are blowing.
Autumntime's a brown time
When seeds are ripe for sowing;
But wintertime's a white time
(It is the flowers' nighttime)
When
stars of frost are glowing.
Four Seasons
Rowena Bastin Bennett
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Sleeping life
It is the flowers' nighttime
. . .
In many parts of the world it is winter,
and the ground lies cold and hard beneath
snow and frost. The sleeping trees are
brown and bare. The dry, dead stems of
last year's plants shiver in the cold wind.
But under the snow and in the frozen
ground are millions of seeds, underground
stems, and roots that will be next sum-
mer's plants. Each seed is a package of
life, with a tiny plant and a store of food
inside it. On the roots and stems are
buds, and each bud is the heart of a
A
sleeping plant. little warmth, a taste of
water, and the plants will awake again.
And down in the ground, or snuggled
beneath the snow-covered leaves, summer
—
animals chipmunks, frogs, ants, spiders
—
are sleeping, too. Like the plants, the
animals are also waiting for warmth and
life to come back to the land.
