FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   >>  
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
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   117   118   119   120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   >>  



Top keywords:
flower
 

flowers

 

syllables

 

yellow

 

DIVISION

 
pretty
 
meaning
 

derived

 
Puzzle

purple

 

beautiful

 

stamens

 
sensitive
 

favourite

 
behold
 

flowering

 
streams
 
August

hedgerows

 

spring

 

forward

 

houses

 

brooks

 

meadows

 

fields

 

pistil

 

JUNIOR


plants

 

number

 

garden

 

proper

 
SENIOR
 

briefly

 

correctly

 

quantity

 
indoors

called

 
poisonous
 

including

 
important
 
squares
 

sorted

 
bitter
 
September
 

pastures