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Show I "(V ! r One of tho greatest 'advantages of modern school methods, as compared with. tho school, methods "our parent surylvedIs tljat .they teach the children chil-dren to observe many things which the parents ljjvo nevjr evn ntjppetl to think about. Take the blossoms of our many beautlfurflotrmrf plants for example. Everyone has marveled marvel-ed at tho multitude of shapes and hues to be found In tho various blossoms, blos-soms, but how many of ub over wondered won-dered why tho flower petals oro bright ly colored, whllo tho enlyx and tho leaves aro green? Almost everyone could guess that It wns" to old tho bees and butterflies In finding the honey bearing portion of tho plant, but tho pity Is that so many of us novor oven thought of tho problem. Can you tell why somo plants pro-duco pro-duco floworo of different shades during dur-ing tho shmo season? Did you know that tho honoy bees feed on only ond kind of floycr until thoy hnvo a load ready for tho htve, so as not to mix itholr'druiksj Horo is whoro tho col--oroT' tho 'blbsBoms olds them moist, -MdJkAUajtrpTs,.that boes cither havo a well developed sense of color or an acuto sense of smell. Sometimes part of the flower petals pet-als aro green and sometimes there aro no petals at all, but In the latter case there Is no need of bees transferring trans-ferring tho pollen from flower to flower, so nnturo makes no effort to attract them. Certain plants havo highly colored leaves nnd dull lined blossbms, but most of theso aro tropical plants which do many strango and Inexplicable Inexplic-able things. Tho color In tho leaves and petals Is derived from small cells In which tho plant foods and the oxy-gen oxy-gen nr-cdlgestedi Thero Is no illges-tlvo illges-tlvo process carried on In tho petalsl however, If my1 memory falls not, and tho chlorophyl cells In tho leaves do most of this work. Their color fades If they do not havo access to sunlight and air, but theso conditions do not seem to affect the color of tho bios-soms bios-soms materially. |