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Flowers and their friends

Chapter 2: A LETTER TO THE READERS OF THIS BOOK.
By Margaret Warner Morley
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About This Book

A children's natural-history guide uses vivid, approachable vignettes about familiar garden and wild blossoms — morning-glory, geraniums, hyacinths, nasturtiums, and jewelweed — to teach how flowers are built and function. Clear explanations of stamens, pistils, pollen, nectaries, leaves, roots, cells, and chlorophyll are paired with stories of insect visitors and pollination, seed and fruit formation, and plant life cycles. Practical observation tips and a glossary help young readers explore how floral structure, nectar, and color serve reproduction and attract animal helpers.

A LETTER
TO THE READERS OF THIS BOOK.

❃
Dear Children,—

It would be very stupid indeed to try to read a book written in Arabic or Hebrew; we should soon tire and put it down.

It is just as uninteresting to read English words whose meaning we do not understand; we might as well devote ourselves to a foreign and unknown tongue.

I hope you will never do it. If you do not know what a word means, find out. There is a list of words you may not know at the back of this book to help you. They are all words used in the book, and if you look you may not find them as stupid as you think. Some day you will discover that the dictionary is quite an exciting and interesting volume.

Meantime enjoy the flowers and their insect friends all you can, and be sure you know the meaning of all the words that tell about them.

Your friend,
The Author.