The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 132
ning to purple answer to the bars ofrain-cloud that accompany them. In the gentiansthis color deepens until in the closed gentian it isso full and significant as to symbolize the darken-ing twilight of the year, the storm blue of theapproaching night-clouds; while the yellow, filmystars of the… … FLOWERS OF THE BLUEBERRY.The urn-shaped bells suggest the form of the fruit. that at first is all that we see. Soon, however,tossing yellow tassels are seen, swinging fromall the branches, and these minute florets clus-tered on slender threads are the oak-tree flow-ers. The scarlet oak has somewhat…
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