some more, especially a good recipe for
bread.

I would like to know the name of this little flower. It was given
to me, and I think it was found growing in the water.

PUSS HUNTER.

Your flower is a cowslip, which grows in wet meadows, and is one of the
earliest blossoms of spring.

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

I am twelve years old, and I am very fond of flowers, and take
great delight in hunting for them. There is a flower which grows
in the woods and open fields here, called the "Star of Bethlehem."
The blossom is a little white five-pointed star, and it blooms in
great quantities in the month of May. If "Genevieve," of
California, sends her address, I shall like to exchange pressed
flowers with her.

BERTHA S.

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I would be pleased to exchange pressed leaves with Mary Wright, of
Kansas, if she will wait until fall, as I always have a very nice
collection of autumn leaves. I would also like to exchange pressed
ferns with some little girl in the fall. I think HARPER'S YOUNG
PEOPLE is a splendid paper.

EMMA FOLTZ,
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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QUITMAN, GEORGIA.

I am a little Southern girl, eight years old to-day. Grandpa gave
me a gold ring, and papa gave me a beautiful doll. Oranges,
bananas, and sugar-cane grow here, and we have flowers and
mocking-birds all winter. Please tell me what willow "pussies"
are.

INDIA T.

If you look in the Post-office Box of No. 25 you will find a description
of willow "pussies," given in answer to questions from other young
correspondents in the far South.

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JULIAN G.--The first volume of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be finished
with the fifty-second number, issued the last Tuesday in October, 1880.

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S. G. SMITH.--"Tumble home" indicates curving in toward the top;
"tumbling in aft," curving under.

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H. T. M.--The characters you inquire about are not letters, but signs
understood only by the members of a certain society.

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NEW YORK CITY.

Could you tell me the origin of the name "Forget-me-not" as
applied to flowers? I have heard there is some