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tea-time they were all thoroughly tired, and ready to go indoors when mamma called them. There's the game, now for the Puzzle. You will find below a quantity of syllables in squares. Those syllables, if sorted out correctly, will make a certain number of wild and garden flowers, briefly described below, and all you have to do is to pick them out and place them in their proper order. SENIOR DIVISION. +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ | tau | e | ach | clem | a | ber | +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ | mim | be | y | im | a | ris | +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ |eschs | ant | cen | u | ge | tis | +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ | i | val | ir | an | rhi | pol | +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ | zi | ra | cholt | ri | thus | num | +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ | nes | tum | an | a | lus | ry | +------+-----+-------+------+------+-----+ The following flowers can be made from the above syllables:--1. A small pink wild flower, bitter to taste, found in dry pastures--June to September. 2. Many flowers on one stem. 3. Its name is derived from a Latin word meaning mimic or ape. 4. A small but important order, including the poppy and many poisonous plants. 5. With open mouth behold this favourite flower. 6. Erect flowering-stems, found in damp hedgerows, moist woods, edges of streams--June to August. 7. Its name is derived from a word meaning sensitive to cold. 8. A beautiful purple or white flower, seen on the walls of many homes. 9. "A plant ever young." 10. Touch the stamens with the point of a pin, and they all spring forward and touch the pistil. JUNIOR DIVISION. +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ | cel | o | cor | pim | e | beg | +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ | a | sue | an | di | nem | el | +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ | di | cam | op | dine | an | y | +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ | ag | sis | per | pan | o | cory | +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ | jas | ne | ri | thus | u | mo | +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ |nel | nia | tra | la | ny | mine | +-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+ The following flowers can be made from the above syllables:--1. A pretty yellow flower, found in damp fields, meadows, and brooks. 2. A white or yellow flower found on houses. 3. A pretty little yellow f
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